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Alexander Fersman

1883 - 1945

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Alexander Evgenyevich Fersman (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман; 8 November 1883 – 20 May 1945) was a prominent Soviet Russian geochemist and mineralogist, and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919–1945). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Fersman has received more than 27,295 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alexander Fersman is the 354th most popular explorer (down from 343rd in 2019), the 1,536th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,433rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Fersman ranks 354 out of 405. Before him are Henri Duveyrier, Ivan Moskvitin, Edward Belcher, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Dirk Hartog, and Louise Arner Boyd. After him are Gaspar de Portolá, George Kennan, Vasily Chichagov, Sámuel Teleki, Étienne Brûlé, and Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Alexander Fersman ranks 181. Before him are Alberto Braglia, Élie Lescot, Toivo Kuula, Estelle Winwood, D. S. Senanayake, and Ernst Stadler. After him are Feodor Gladkov, Jacques Ochs, František Drtikol, Sax Rohmer, Sylvanus Morley, and Käthe Kruse. Among people deceased in 1945, Alexander Fersman ranks 246. Before him are Berta Zuckerkandl, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Nils Edén, Yu Dafu, and Eugen Bolz. After him are Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, Blind Willie Johnson, Milton S. Hershey, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Richard Bong, and Albert Tyler.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Fersman ranks 1,536 out of 3,262. Before him are Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875), Vsevolod of Pskov (null), Raisa Aronova (1920), Agnes Miegel (1879), Valery Gazzaev (1954), and Efim Zelmanov (1955). After him are Aleksey Remizov (1877), Simon Ushakov (1626), Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903), Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Feodor Gladkov (1883), and Boris Grebenshchikov (1953).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Alexander Fersman ranks 22. Before him are Irina Solovyova (1937), Karl Maximovich (1827), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Khariton Laptev (1700), and Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808). After him are Yakov Sannikov (1780), Pyotr Anjou (1796), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), and Mikhail Somov (1908).

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