PHYSICIST

Lev Artsimovich

1909 - 1973

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Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich (Russian: Лев Андреевич Арцимович, February 25, 1909 – March 1, 1973), also transliterated Arzimowitsch, was a Soviet physicist known for his contributions to the Tokamak— a device that produces controlled thermonuclear fusion power. Prior to conceiving the idea on nuclear fusion, Artsimovich participated in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and was a recipient of many former Soviet honors and awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Artsimovich has received more than 71,253 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lev Artsimovich is the 547th most popular physicist (up from 568th in 2019), the 1,344th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,419th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lev Artsimovich ranks 547 out of 851. Before him are Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, John Sealy Townsend, Alfred Perot, Artem Alikhanian, Heinz von Foerster, and Norman Holter. After him are C. P. Snow, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Theodore Lyman IV, David Deutsch, Willem Hendrik Keesom, and Georg Hermann Quincke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Lev Artsimovich ranks 200. Before him are Paco Bienzobas, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Evelyne Hall, and Mario Pizziolo. After him are Adam von Trott zu Solz, Endel Puusepp, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Đorđe Vujadinović, Margaret Sullavan, and André Clot. Among people deceased in 1973, Lev Artsimovich ranks 152. Before him are Willy Fritsch, István Kertész, Gustaf Molander, Mikhail Isakovsky, John Cranko, and Winthrop Rockefeller. After him are Paul Kletzki, Nancy Mitford, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Armas Toivonen, Louis St. Laurent, and Alina Szapocznikow.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Artsimovich ranks 1,344 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Nur Devlet (null), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), and Boris Yegorov (1937). After him are Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Endel Puusepp (1909), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), and Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Lev Artsimovich ranks 35. Before him are Andrei Linde (1948), Max Wien (1866), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), George Zweig (1937), Boris Rosing (1869), and Vladimir Steklov (1864). After him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Barys Kit (1910), and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862).

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