PHYSICIST

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

1928 - 2017

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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov has received more than 231,735 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is the 182nd most popular physicist (up from 185th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Russia (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Physicist.

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is most famous for his work in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work in developing a theory of superconductivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 182 out of 851. Before him are Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Martin Lewis Perl, Alexander Prokhorov, Satyendra Nath Bose, and James Rainwater. After him are Igor Tamm, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Klaus von Klitzing, Charles H. Townes, and David Bohm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 39. Before him are Martin Landau, Alberto Korda, Domenico Modugno, Peyo, Hans Küng, and George Peppard. After him are Manfred Gerlach, Vera Rubin, Federico Bahamontes, Herbert Kroemer, Carlos Fuentes, and Francesco Cossiga. Among people deceased in 2017, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 32. Before him are Glen Campbell, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Mário Soares, Martin Landau, Hans Georg Dehmelt, and Roman Herzog. After him are Hiroto Muraoka, Derek Walcott, Tzvetan Todorov, Louise Hay, Emmanuelle Riva, and Lotfi A. Zadeh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 209 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853). After him are Gherman Titov (1935), Igor Tamm (1895), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), and Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov ranks 8. Before him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), and Igor Kurchatov (1903). After him are Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Alexey Ekimov (1945).

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