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Alexander Markovich Polyakov

1945 - Today

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Alexander Markovich Polyakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Поляко́в; born 27 September 1945) is a Russian theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow and, since 1989, at Princeton University, where he is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Markovich Polyakov has received more than 147,857 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Markovich Polyakov is the 560th most popular physicist (up from 584th in 2019), the 1,412th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,488th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Over the past year Alexander Markovich Polyakov has had the most page views in the with 17,427 views, followed by Russian (6,839), and Chinese (3,544). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (98.59%), Japanese (90.35%), and Southern Azerbaijani (60.82%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 560 out of 851Before him are Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, John G. Trump, Paul Davies, Joseph Larmor, and Pierre Weiss. After him are Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, Woldemar Voigt, Kenneth Bainbridge, and August Beer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 324Before him are Brian Connolly, Faustin Twagiramungu, Norio Wakamoto, Larry Tesler, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, and John McVie. After him are Rita Coolidge, Willeke Alberti, Ronee Blakley, Richard Hatch, Michael Blake, and Tony Williams.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 1,412 out of 3,761Before him are Andrey Korotayev (1961), Boris Grebenshchikov (1953), Mikhail Shishkin (1961), Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), Carl Enckell (1876), and Grigory Gagarin (1810). After him are Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Sophia Parnok (1885), Marie Vassilieff (1884), Antonina Makarova (1920), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), and Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 36Before him are Max Wien (1866), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), George Zweig (1937), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), and Lev Artsimovich (1909). After him are Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Barys Kit (1910), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), and Orest Khvolson (1852).