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PHYSICIST

Abram Ioffe

1880 - 1960

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Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, IPA: [ɐˈbram ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈofɛ]; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abram Ioffe has received more than 113,256 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Abram Ioffe is the 358th most popular physicist (down from 344th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 215th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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  • 35

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abram Ioffe ranks 358 out of 717. Before him are Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, and Robert B. Laughlin. After him are Oskar Klein, Paul Drude, Louis Slotin, Anna Mani, Nick Holonyak, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Abram Ioffe ranks 64. Before him are John Boyd Orr, Mitsumasa Yonai, Grock, Prince Georg of Bavaria, Tod Browning, and Robert Stolz. After him are Jacques Thibaud, Hajime Sugiyama, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Fethi Okyar, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Osami Nagano. Among people deceased in 1960, Abram Ioffe ranks 55. Before him are Paul Abraham, Antonie Pannekoek, Vicki Baum, Pierre Reverdy, José Antonio Aguirre, and Alexandre Benois. After him are James Montgomery Flagg, Edwin Fischer, John B. Kelly Sr., Georges Claude, Maurice de Broglie, and Feroze Gandhi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abram Ioffe ranks 255 out of 1,083. Before him are Valeriy Borzov (1949), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), David Burliuk (1882), Alexander Siloti (1863), Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130), and Igor Svyatoslavich (1151). After him are Igor II of Kiev (1100), Franz Doppler (1821), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Aleksandr Medved (1937), and Zalmoxis (-713).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Abram Ioffe ranks 4. Before him are George Gamow (1904), Georges Charpak (1924), and Moshé Feldenkrais (1904). After him are Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), and Gregory Breit (1899).

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