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Alexander Voeikov

1842 - 1916

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Alexander Ivanovich Voeikov (Александр Иванович Воейков, 20 May 1842 – 9 February 1916) was a Russian meteorologist and climatologist who was involved in establishing meteorological stations across Russia. He took an interest in the interconnection of meteorological processes and long term climate. He described a Siberian high pressure area extending into South West Europe which is known as the Voeikov Axis. Voeikov was born in Moscow to Ivan Fedorovich but orphaned at the age of five, he was raised by his maternal uncle D. D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Voeikov has received more than 4,336 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Voeikov is the 467th most popular astronomer (down from 446th in 2019), the 1,950th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,808th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alexander Voeikov ranks 467 out of 644. Before him are Tsutomu Seki, Vincenzo Cerulli, Luciano Tesi, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Stephen P. Synnott, and Mary Adela Blagg. After him are Schelte J. Bus, Hiroshi Kaneda, Holger Thiele, Royal Harwood Frost, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Charlotte Moore Sitterly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Alexander Voeikov ranks 88. Before him are Hannibal Sehested, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Otto Sinding, Hugo Egmont Hørring, Josef Labor, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. After him are Alphons Czibulka, Calixa Lavallée, Albert Ladenburg, Charles W. Alcock, Nikolai Menshutkin, and Agnes Mary Clerke. Among people deceased in 1916, Alexander Voeikov ranks 130. Before him are Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Germán Riesco, Maksim Kovalevsky, Adolph Frank, and Charles Booth. After him are Alfred Cogniaux, Gorch Fock, Guido Romano, Lorenzo Latorre, Mary Everest Boole, and Joseph Jacobs.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Voeikov ranks 1,950 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907), Igor Novikov (1929), Nikolai Pogodin (1900), Yuliya Borisova (1925), Alexander Shishkov (1754), and Mark Midler (1931). After him are Ravil Maganov (1954), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Leonid Mikhelson (1955), Teodor Shteingel (1870), Zhanna Bichevskaya (1944), and Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Alexander Voeikov ranks 12. Before him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), and Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881). After him are Pelageya Shajn (1894), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Matvey Gusev (1826), Vera Gaze (1899), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855).

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