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Alexey Ekimov

1945 - Today

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Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov (Russian: Алексей Екимов; born 1945) is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexey Ekimov has received more than 172,839 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexey Ekimov is the 243rd most popular physicist, the 288th most popular biography from Russia and the 14th most popular Russian Physicist.

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  • 68.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 0.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexey Ekimov ranks 243 out of 851. Before him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Leon M. Lederman, Henry Way Kendall, John Kendrew, Valentin Ceaușescu, and Bertram Brockhouse. After him are Patrick Blackett, Klaus Hasselmann, John Archibald Wheeler, Jim Peebles, Gérard Mourou, and Georg Bednorz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Alexey Ekimov ranks 58. Before him are Bryan Ferry, Steve Martin, Keith Jarrett, José Feliciano, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Laurent Gbagbo. After him are Itzhak Perlman, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Bette Midler, Richard Thaler, Moncef Marzouki, and Hasan Akhund.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexey Ekimov ranks 288 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Eugen Sandow (1867), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Eduard Limonov (1943), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), and Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888). After him are Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), and Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexey Ekimov ranks 14. Before him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916). After him are Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), and Yulii Khariton (1904).

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