The Most Famous
Physicists from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 5 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 22nd most number of Physicists behind Belgium and Czechia.
Top 5 Belarusian Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusians Physicists of all time. This list of famous Belarusians Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Zhores Alferov
1930 - 2019
HPI 67.8578 langsZhores Alferov is most famous for his invention of the heterostructure field-effect transistor, which is a type of semiconductor device used...Read moreShow less
Zhores Alferov is most famous for his invention of the heterostructure field-effect transistor, which is a type of semiconductor device used in modern electronics.
- #2
Yakov Zeldovich
1914 - 1987
HPI 65.5748 langsSoviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist
- #3
Otto Schmidt
1891 - 1956
HPI 63.3341 langsRussian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
- #4
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski
1845 - 1888
HPI 59.6624 langsPolish scientist (1845-1888)
- #5
Leonid Mandelstam
1879 - 1944
HPI 59.3027 langsSoviet physicist
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
