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Boris Borisovich Golitsyn

1862 - 1916

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Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (Russian: Борис Борисович Голицын, 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1862 – 17 May [O.S. 4 May] 1916) was a prominent Russian Empire physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906. He was one of the founders of modern Seismology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Borisovich Golitsyn has received more than 19,826 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Borisovich Golitsyn is the 648th most popular physicist (down from 629th in 2019), the 1,789th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,688th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 648 out of 851. Before him are Ralph Kronig, Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, and William Higinbotham. After him are Julius Wess, Hertha Sponer, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, César Lattes, Michael Berry, and Lee Smolin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 128. Before him are Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Stanisław Narutowicz, Jules Renkin, Arthur De Greef, Eugen Schmidt, and Henry Slocum. After him are Fernand Courty, Wilhelm Weinberg, Horatio Caro, Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, and Cecilio Báez. Among people deceased in 1916, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 125. Before him are Rik Wouters, Georgios Theotokis, William Merritt Chase, Sámuel Teleki, Paul von Plehwe, and Leo Anton Karl de Ball. After him are Germán Riesco, Maksim Kovalevsky, Adolph Frank, Charles Booth, Alexander Voeikov, and Alfred Cogniaux.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 1,789 out of 3,761. Before him are Tatyana Vasilyeva (1947), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Yury Malyshev (1941), Nikolay Kasatkin (1859), and Yekaterina Vasilyeva (1945). After him are Ivan Polzunov (1728), Fyodor Vasilyev (1850), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Denis Urubko (1973), Isaak Zelensky (1890), and Mikhail Voronin (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 41. Before him are Lev Artsimovich (1909), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), and Barys Kit (1910). After him are Orest Khvolson (1852), Leonid Sedov (1907), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Roald Sagdeev (1932), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Grigory Landsberg (1890).

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