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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 149,550 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alexander Markovich Polyakov is the 584th most popular physicist (up from 631st in 2019), the 1,492nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Physicist.

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  • 20

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  • 4.67

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  • 2.32

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 584 out of 717Before him are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, and Isaak Khalatnikov. After him are Ted Fujita, Bill Nye, John D. Barrow, John Robison, Willem Hendrik Keesom, and Georges-Louis Le Sage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 324Before him are Mats Wahl, Yuri Antonov, Agustín Balbuena, John McVie, Edmund M. Clarke, and Jean-Pierre Kutwa. After him are Carlos Osoro Sierra, Pierre Michon, Walt Frazier, Pat Jennings, Kadir Topbaş, and Meira Kumar.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 1,492 out of 3,262Before him are Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Dmitry Peskov (1967), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Bulan (null), Andrey Voronikhin (1759), and Andrey Makarevich (1953). After him are Andreï Makine (1957), Sigizmund Levanevsky (1902), Julia Lermontova (1847), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Vera Panova (1905), and Abraham of Smolensk (1172).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 35Before him are Vladimir Steklov (1864), Max Wien (1866), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Lev Artsimovich (1909), and Yakov Frenkel (1894). After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Barys Kit (1910), Leonid Sedov (1907), Nikolay Umov (1846), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), and Orest Khvolson (1852).