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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 122,865 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Abram Ioffe is the 363rd most popular physicist (down from 358th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 252nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abram Ioffe ranks 363 out of 851. Before him are George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, and Charles Fabry. After him are Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, Maurice de Broglie, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and Jean-Antoine Nollet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Abram Ioffe ranks 58. Before him are Elias, Duke of Parma, Archie Hahn, Robert Stolz, Grock, Hajime Sugiyama, and Mitsumasa Yonai. After him are Margherita Sarfatti, Nikolaj Velimirović, Osami Nagano, Alexander Grin, Gideon Sundback, and Jacques Thibaud. Among people deceased in 1960, Abram Ioffe ranks 54. Before him are August Kopff, Feroze Gandhi, Pierre Reverdy, Salvatore Ferragamo, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Antonie Pannekoek. After him are Alexandre Benois, Maurice de Broglie, St John Philby, Hans Wilsdorf, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, and A. L. Kroeber.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abram Ioffe ranks 241 out of 1,365. Before him are Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Ivan Bohun (1618), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Natan Sharansky (1948), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), and Alexander Siloti (1863). After him are Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Ruslana (1973), and Yuri Knorozov (1922).

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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), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), and Isaak Khalatnikov (1919).

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