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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 64,380 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Lev Artsimovich is the 568th most popular physicist (down from 560th in 2019), the 1,423rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,296th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lev Artsimovich ranks 568 out of 717Before him are Bryce DeWitt, Georg Adolf Erman, James Hansen, Gustav Mie, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Ludvig Faddeev. After him are Francis Hauksbee, Fabiola Gianotti, Yakov Frenkel, Alfred Perot, Emil Warburg, and José Celestino Mutis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Lev Artsimovich ranks 209Before him are Juan Carreño, Paco Bienzobas, Saunders Mac Lane, Josef Košťálek, Eva Justin, and Riccardo Cassin. After him are André Clot, Guillermo León Valencia, Dorino Serafini, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Bernabé Ferreyra, and Manuel Olivares. Among people deceased in 1973, Lev Artsimovich ranks 161Before him are Anton Ackermann, Alina Szapocznikow, Leonid Stein, Alexander Rou, Rodolphe Hiden, and Masayuki Mori. After him are Gram Parsons, Yves Giraud-Cabantous, Alexander Gorbatov, Carlos Schneeberger, Käthe von Nagy, and Vera Panova.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Artsimovich ranks 1,423 out of 3,262Before him are Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Mikhail Pugovkin (1923), Helene Fischer (1984), Dmitry Senyavin (1763), Franz Meyen (1804), and Ivan Aksakov (1823). After him are Elvira Nabiullina (1963), Aino Kallas (1878), Savva Mamontov (1841), Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881), Alexey Bogolyubov (1824), and Simon Vratsian (1882).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Lev Artsimovich ranks 33Before him are Andrei Linde (1948), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Max Wien (1866), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), and Ludvig Faddeev (1934). After him are Yakov Frenkel (1894), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Barys Kit (1910), Leonid Sedov (1907), and Nikolay Umov (1846).