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Ivan Yarkovsky

1844 - 1902

Ivan Yarkovsky

Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (Polish: Jan Jarkowski) (24 May 1844, Asveya, Vitebsk Governorate – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish Russian civil engineer. Born from a Polish family in Asveya (Russian Empire, now Belarus), he worked for a Russian railway company and was obscure in his own time. Beginning in the 1970s, long after Yarkovsky's death, his work on the effects of thermal radiation on small objects in the Solar System (e.g., asteroids) was developed into the Yarkovsky effect and the YORP effect, thanks to his rediscovery by Estonian astronomer Ernst J. Öpik. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Yarkovsky has received more than 13,393 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ivan Yarkovsky is the 155th most popular engineer (up from 196th in 2019).

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Among engineers, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 155 out of 323. Before him are Mstislav Keldysh, Hellmuth Walter, Menno van Coehoorn, John Loudon McAdam, Alexander Mozhaysky, and Georges Leclanché. After him are Alec Issigonis, Giuseppe Colombo, Marc Seguin, John Bagot Glubb, Léon Charles Thévenin, and Gérard Larrousse.

Most Popular Engineers in Wikipedia

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Mstislav Keldysh
1911 - 1978
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 149
Hellmuth Walter
1900 - 1980
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 150
Menno van Coehoorn
1641 - 1704
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 151
John Loudon McAdam
1756 - 1836
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 152
Alexander Mozhaysky
1825 - 1890
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 153
Georges Leclanché
1836 - 1882
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 154
Ivan Yarkovsky
1844 - 1902
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 155
Alec Issigonis
1906 - 1988
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 156
Giuseppe Colombo
1920 - 1984
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 157
Marc Seguin
1786 - 1875
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 158
John Bagot Glubb
1897 - 1986
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 159
Léon Charles Thévenin
1857 - 1926
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 160
Gérard Larrousse
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 161

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 54. Before him are Carl Hagenbeck, Gyula Benczúr, Lujo Brentano, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Garret Hobart, and Wilhelm Leibl. After him are Jenny Longuet, Tivadar Puskás, Gustave Schlumberger, Béhanzin, Catherine Breshkovsky, and James Guillaume. Among people deceased in 1902, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 31. Before him are Prudente de Morais, Imre Steindl, Marie Alfred Cornu, Moritz Kaposi, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, and Jules Dalou. After him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Ernst Schröder, Thomas Nast, Adolf Kussmaul, Fyodor Stravinsky, and Saigō Jūdō.

Others Born in 1844

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Carl Hagenbeck
1844 - 1913
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 48
Gyula Benczúr
1844 - 1920
HPI: 54.07
Rank: 49
Lujo Brentano
1844 - 1931
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 50
Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1844 - 1894
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 51
Garret Hobart
1844 - 1899
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 52
Wilhelm Leibl
1844 - 1900
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 53
Ivan Yarkovsky
1844 - 1902
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 54
Jenny Longuet
1844 - 1883
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 55
Tivadar Puskás
1844 - 1893
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 56
Gustave Schlumberger
1844 - 1929
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 57
Béhanzin
1844 - 1906
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 58
Catherine Breshkovsky
1844 - 1934
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 59
James Guillaume
1844 - 1916
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 60