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Gregory Breit

1899 - 1981

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Gregory Breit (Ukrainian: Григорій Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, Russian: Григорий Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, romanized: Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider; July 14, 1899 – September 13, 1981) was an American physicist born in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine). He was a professor at New York University (1929–1934), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale University (1947–1968), and University at Buffalo (1968–1973). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Breit has received more than 114,257 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Breit is the 688th most popular physicist (down from 654th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 680th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregory Breit ranks 688 out of 851. Before him are Thibault Damour, Isaak Kikoin, Robert R. Wilson, John Iliopoulos, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, and Inga Fischer-Hjalmars. After him are Leona Woods, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, Alfred Ewing, Yvette Cauchois, and Leonid Sedov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Gregory Breit ranks 245. Before him are Pat O'Brien, Juan Arremón, Hans Jacob Nielsen, John Qualen, Ian Keith, and Maurice Carême. After him are Alexander Nesmeyanov, Guy Butler, Panagiotis Pipinelis, George O'Brien, Martin Luther King Sr., and George Călinescu. Among people deceased in 1981, Gregory Breit ranks 208. Before him are Wilfried Puis, Rudolf Viertl, Jan Burgers, Ichikawa Fusae, János Pilinszky, and Vera-Ellen. After him are Robert Moses, Guy Butler, Francesca Woodman, Leonard Howell, Paolo Mazza, and Paddy Chayefsky.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 804 out of 1,365. Before him are Artur Văitoianu (1864), Vladimir Bogoraz (1865), Hennadiy Kernes (1959), Antonina Nezhdanova (1873), Oleh Tyahnybok (1968), and Frederic Zelnik (1885). After him are Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Alfreda Markowska (1926), Natasha Korolyova (1973), Leonid Buryak (1953), and Vladimir Yashchenko (1959).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 14. Before him are Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), and Maurice Goldhaber (1911). After him are Gersh Budker (1918).

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