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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 Nikolayev, 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 106,636 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Breit is the 654th most popular physicist (up from 664th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 644th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregory Breit ranks 654 out of 717. Before him are Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, Leona Woods, Aleksandr Andronov, Peter Mark Roget, and Lisa Randall. After him are Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, George F. R. Ellis, Valentine Telegdi, Arthur Schuster, and Orest Khvolson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Gregory Breit ranks 225. Before him are Lillian Disney, May McAvoy, Giorgi Leonidze, Alfred Mosher Butts, Ilse Bing, and Lyman Lemnitzer. After him are Hendrik Marsman, John Qualen, Jan Lechoń, Elisabeth Langgässer, Bo Lindman, and Neil Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1981, Gregory Breit ranks 187. Before him are Nils Asther, Josef Silný, Delfo Cabrera, Beulah Bondi, Ruby Payne-Scott, and Aníbal Ciocca. After him are Beatrice Tinsley, Antonio Suárez, Paul Bontemps, Richard Boone, Ariel Durant, and Antero Kivi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 683 out of 1,083. Before him are Dmytro Yarosh (1971), Dmytro Kuleba (1981), Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1949), Nikolai Gubenko (1941), Grisha Filipov (1919), and Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (1975). After him are Eduard Gufeld (1936), Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), and Henry Lehrman (1886).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 12. Before him are Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), and Maurice Goldhaber (1911). After him are Vladimir Veksler (1907).

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