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Nikolai Kardashev

1932 - 2019

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Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Кардашёв, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲɪˈmʲɵnəvʲɪtɕ kərdɐˈʂof]; April 25, 1932 – August 3, 2019) was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of PN Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Kardashev has received more than 318,049 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Nikolai Kardashev is the 125th most popular inventor (up from 145th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Russia (up from 560th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Inventor.

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  • 59.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 125 out of 426. Before him are Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, Josef Ressel, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, and Taiichi Ohno. After him are Hugo Schmeisser, Samuel Crompton, Mary Anderson, Robert Adler, Elisha Gray, and Richard Jordan Gatling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 94. Before him are Oscar de la Renta, Naina Yeltsina, Quino, Khaled al-Asaad, Walter Gilbert, and Tatsuya Nakadai. After him are Manmohan Singh, Dudley R. Herschbach, Michael Smith, Delphine Seyrig, Oleg Protopopov, and Wojciech Kilar. Among people deceased in 2019, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 76. Before him are Ratko Janev, Paul Greengard, Dragoslav Šekularac, Jan-Michael Vincent, Vladimir Bukovsky, and John Robert Schrieffer. After him are Luke Perry, Felice Gimondi, André Previn, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Lee Iacocca, and Šaban Šaulić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 475 out of 3,761. Before him are Shamil Basayev (1965), Pavel Milyukov (1859), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943). After him are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Lotman (1922), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Vasily Surikov (1848), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), and Filipp Golikov (1900).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 5. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), and Léon Theremin (1896). After him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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