1896 - 1986
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Semyonov has received more than 134,114 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Nikolay Semyonov is the 230th most popular chemist (down from 158th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Russia (down from 348th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Chemist.
Nikolay Semyonov is most famous for his development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.
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Among chemists, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 230 out of 509. Before him are Herbert C. Brown, Franz Karl Achard, John Cornforth, Charles J. Pedersen, Friedrich Sertürner, and William Lipscomb. After him are William Hyde Wollaston, Mária Telkes, John E. Walker, Sidney Altman, Richard F. Heck, and Nikolay Zelinsky.
1912 - 2004
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 224
1753 - 1821
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 225
1917 - 2013
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 226
1904 - 1989
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 227
1783 - 1841
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 228
1919 - 2011
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 229
1896 - 1986
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 230
1766 - 1828
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 231
1900 - 1995
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 232
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 233
1939 - 2022
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 234
1931 - 2015
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 235
1861 - 1953
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 236
Among people born in 1896, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 52. Before him are Robert S. Mulliken, Wallace Carothers, André Masson, Paulino Alcántara, Elsa Triolet, and Mamie Eisenhower. After him are Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Leslie Groves, Ida Noddack, Jimmy Doolittle, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Julien Duvivier. Among people deceased in 1986, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 52. Before him are Raymond Loewy, Ye Jianying, Coluche, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, J. Allen Hynek, and Theodor Busse. After him are Ray Milland, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sterling Hayden, Juan Rulfo, Gusztáv Sebes, and Raimundo Orsi.
1896 - 1986
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 46
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 47
1896 - 1987
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 48
1896 - 1964
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 49
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 50
1896 - 1979
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 51
1896 - 1986
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 52
1896 - 1980
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 53
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 54
1896 - 1978
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 55
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 56
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 57
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 58
1893 - 1986
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 46
1897 - 1986
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 47
1944 - 1986
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 48
1911 - 1986
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 49
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 50
1897 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 51
1896 - 1986
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 52
1907 - 1986
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 53
1909 - 1986
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 54
1916 - 1986
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 55
1917 - 1986
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 56
1906 - 1986
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 57
1901 - 1986
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 58
Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 450 out of 3,262. Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Valentin Pavlov (1937), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Sergei Taneyev (1856), and Semyon Dezhnev (1605). After him are Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Andrei Platonov (1899), Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Vasily Surikov (1848), and Leonid Kuravlyov (1936).
1912 - 1992
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 444
1817 - 1875
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 445
1937 - 2003
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 446
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 447
1856 - 1915
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 448
1605 - 1673
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 449
1896 - 1986
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 450
1856 - 1910
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 451
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 452
1600 - 1616
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 453
1917 - 1994
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 454
1848 - 1916
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 455
1936 - 2022
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 456
Among chemists born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 8. Before him are Otto Wallach (1847), Valery Legasov (1936), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Paul Karrer (1889), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863). After him are Alexander Butlerov (1828), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Nikolay Beketov (1827), and Julia Lermontova (1847).
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 2
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 3
1917 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 4
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 5
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 6
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 7
1896 - 1986
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 8
1828 - 1886
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 9
1838 - 1904
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 10
1841 - 1910
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 11
1838 - 1906
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 12
1827 - 1911
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 13
1847 - 1919
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 14