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Leonid Sedov

1907 - 1999

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Leonid Ivanovich Sedov (Russian: Леонид Иванович Седов; 14 November 1907, Rostov-on-Don – 5 September 1999, Moscow) was a Russian physicist who worked as an engineer in the former Soviet space program. In 1930 Sedov graduated from the Moscow State University, where he had been a student of Sergey Chaplygin, with the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematical Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Sedov has received more than 12,174 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leonid Sedov is the 694th most popular physicist (down from 642nd in 2019), the 1,966th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,771st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leonid Sedov ranks 694 out of 851. Before him are Gregory Breit, Leona Woods, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, Alfred Ewing, and Yvette Cauchois. After him are Zoltán Lajos Bay, Humberto Fernández-Morán, E. C. George Sudarshan, Alvin M. Weinberg, Elda Emma Anderson, and Helen Quinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Leonid Sedov ranks 300. Before him are Willy Busch, Hassler Whitney, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Adalbert Püllöck, and George W. Romney. After him are Manoelzinho, Frank Séchehaye, Bep van Klaveren, Ángel Arocha, Ciro Verratti, and Warren E. Burger. Among people deceased in 1999, Leonid Sedov ranks 218. Before him are Sufia Kamal, Maigonis Valdmanis, Charlie Byrd, Eric Wolf, Vladimir Yashchenko, and Yvette Cauchois. After him are Humberto Fernández-Morán, Néstor Togneri, Frank Lubin, Georges Miez, Robert Kramer, and Raúl Silva Henríquez.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Sedov ranks 1,966 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Lediakhov (1968), Andrei Eshpai (1925), Vladimir Ilyin (1947), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), Nikolai Tanayev (1945), and Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805). After him are Nikolai Panin (1872), Alexander Ablesimov (1742), Yuri Milner (1961), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), Gavriil Popov (1904), and Vasily Andreyev (1861).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Leonid Sedov ranks 43. Before him are Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Barys Kit (1910), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), and Orest Khvolson (1852). After him are Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Roald Sagdeev (1932), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Grigory Landsberg (1890).

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