PHYSICIST

George Volkoff

1914 - 2000

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George Michael Volkoff, (February 23, 1914 – April 24, 2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Volkoff has received more than 162,306 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. George Volkoff is the 439th most popular physicist, the 876th most popular biography from Russia and the 23rd most popular Russian Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

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  • 61.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Volkoff ranks 439 out of 851. Before him are Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, and Charles Galton Darwin. After him are Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, Walther Meissner, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Richard C. Tolman, and Gabriele Veneziano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, George Volkoff ranks 117. Before him are Ilmari Juutilainen, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Erich Topp, Woody Strode, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, and Domènec Balmanya. After him are Noor Inayat Khan, Yahya Khan, Taisen Deshimaru, Sun Ra, Lyman Spitzer, and Koichi Oita. Among people deceased in 2000, George Volkoff ranks 94. Before him are Tito Puente, Terence McKenna, Steven Runciman, Walter Krupinski, Hendrik Casimir, and Charles M. Schulz. After him are Ahmad Shamlou, Rabah Bitat, Domingos da Guia, Ursula Kuczynski, Svetozar Vukmanović, and Kalle Svensson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Volkoff ranks 876 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Maria Sharapova (1987), Vladimir Fock (1898), Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841), Viktor Mamatov (1937), and Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (1868). After him are Sergei Korsakoff (1854), Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1907), Natalia Makarova (1940), Eugene Botkin (1865), Viktor Gorbatko (1934), and Noor Inayat Khan (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, George Volkoff ranks 23. Before him are Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Yulii Khariton (1904), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), and Vladimir Fock (1898). After him are Boris Podolsky (1896), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), and Andrei Linde (1948).

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