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Isaak Kikoin

1908 - 1984

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Isaak Konstantinovich (Kushelevich) Kikoin (Russian: Исаак Константинович (Кушелевич) Кикоин; 28 March 1908 – 28 December 1984), D.N., was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.: 27. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaak Kikoin has received more than 35,958 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Isaak Kikoin is the 683rd most popular physicist (up from 697th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 156th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Isaak Kikoin ranks 683 out of 851Before him are Ursula Franklin, Edith Clarke, Paul Scherrer, John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, and Thibault Damour. After him are Robert R. Wilson, John Iliopoulos, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Gregory Breit, and Leona Woods.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Isaak Kikoin ranks 302Before him are Hans Jakob, Alejandro Villanueva, Matti Sippala, Anna Sipos, György Bródy, and Nicolás Lindley López. After him are Henri Lepage, Hermógenes Fonseca, Roger Beaufrand, Ion Lăpușneanu, Jiro Sato, and Osvaldo Velloso de Barros. Among people deceased in 1984, Isaak Kikoin ranks 191Before him are Byron Haskin, Laurent Grimmonprez, Leopold Lindtberg, Ken Carpenter, Simón Lecue, and Jean De Clercq. After him are Elizabeth Goudge, Víctor Balaguer, Alice Neel, Martin Luther King Sr., Bernard Lonergan, and Balasaraswati.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Isaak Kikoin ranks 164 out of 328Before him are Vincentas Sladkevičius (1920), Abram Deborin (1881), Valdemaras Chomičius (1959), Mikalojus Daukša (1527), Mykolas Biržiška (1882), and Saulius Skvernelis (1970). After him are Georgy Ivanov (1894), Vytautas Žalakevičius (1930), Vladas Mironas (1880), Stasys Girėnas (1893), Vasily Kachalov (1875), and Bronius Kutavičius (1932).

Among PHYSICISTS In Lithuania

Among physicists born in Lithuania, Isaak Kikoin ranks 1