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George Koval

1913 - 2006

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George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, IPA: [ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ] , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American engineer who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent reduced the time it took for the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons. Koval was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Koval has received more than 304,684 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. George Koval is the 9,552nd most popular politician (down from 9,391st in 2019), the 3,477th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,563rd in 2019) and the 220th most popular American Politician.

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  • 300k

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  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Koval ranks 9,552 out of 15,577. Before him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Émile Ollivier, Sobekemsaf I, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Georgios Kondylis, and Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Anna Walentynowicz, Iajuddin Ahmed, Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Sa'dun Hammadi, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Pieter Both.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, George Koval ranks 135. Before him are Motoo Tatsuhara, Tadao Horie, Alfonso López Michelsen, Alexander Kotov, Stefan Heym, and Gig Young. After him are William P. Rogers, Milivoj Ašner, Walter Andreas Schwarz, René Schneider, Sebastiano Baggio, and Pak Song-chol. Among people deceased in 2006, George Koval ranks 134. Before him are Jack Williamson, Ahmet Ertegun, Richard Bright, Dennis Weaver, Mickey Spillane, and Ferenc Szusza. After him are John Profumo, Johannes Willebrands, W. Montgomery Watt, Peter Boyle, Paul Gleason, and Rudi Carrell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Koval ranks 3,477 out of 18,182. Before him are Black Hawk (1767), Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), Kenny Loggins (1948), Jack Thayer (1894), Donna Murphy (1959), and Elizabeth Olsen (1989). After him are John Frederick Kensett (1816), Steve Berry (1955), Frank Jarvis (1878), John Marshall (1755), Tito Jackson (1953), and Claire Danes (1979).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George Koval ranks 220. Before him are Leon Panetta (1938), Ross Perot (1930), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Michael Dukakis (1933), Black Hawk (1767), and Lawrence Eagleburger (1930). After him are Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), William P. Rogers (1913), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), and R. Budd Dwyer (1939).

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