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Nikolay Semyonov

1896 - 1986

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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

Among chemists, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 230 out of 509Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 52Before 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 52Before 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.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 450 out of 3,262Before 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).

Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 8Before 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).