The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Uzbekistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Uzbekistani Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Uzbekistan. This makes Uzbekistan the birth place of the 49th most number of Physicists behind Slovenia, and Egypt.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uzbekistani Physicists of all time. This list of famous Uzbekistani Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rashid Sunyaev (b. 1943)
With an HPI of 54.18, Rashid Sunyaev is the most famous Uzbekistani Physicist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Tatar: Рәшит Гали улы Сөнәев, Russian: Раши́д Али́евич Сюня́ев; born 1 March 1943 in Tashkent, USSR) is a German, Soviet, and Russian astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev was the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the Academy's Space Research Institute since 1992. He has also been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany since 1996, and Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 2010. In February 2022, he signed an open letter from Russian scientists and science journalists condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Uzbekistani physicists born between 1943 and 1943. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Uzbekistani physicists include Rashid Sunyaev.
