PHYSICIST

Nikolay Umov

1846 - 1915

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Nikolay Alekseevich Umov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич У́мов; January 23, 1846 – January 15, 1915) was a Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Umov has received more than 44,640 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Umov is the 723rd most popular physicist (down from 646th in 2019), the 2,124th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,788th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Russian Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nikolay Umov ranks 723 out of 851. Before him are Lisa Randall, Arthur Wightman, Peter Mark Roget, Mark Oliphant, Pief Panofsky, and Roald Sagdeev. After him are John Joly, Howard P. Robertson, Harvey Fletcher, Rudolf Haag, Henrik Svensmark, and Julian Barbour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Nikolay Umov ranks 107. Before him are William McGregor, Max Fürbringer, Rose Cleveland, Eugen Baumann, Marco Aurelio Soto, and Benigno Ferreira. After him are Federico Chueca, Randolph Caldecott, Maksymilian Gierymski, Edward S. Holden, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, and Ira Remsen. Among people deceased in 1915, Nikolay Umov ranks 112. Before him are Édouard Vaillant, Greene Vardiman Black, George Nares, Nelson W. Aldrich, Antonio Flores Jijón, and Lajos Gönczy. After him are Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Solomon Schechter, Keir Hardie, Béla Las-Torres, José María Campo Serrano, and Charles Walter De Vis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 2,124 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennadi Gusarov (1937), Vasily Nebenzya (1962), Aleksey Buldakov (1951), Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925), and Lev Shcherba (1880). After him are Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), and Rufina Gasheva (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 46. Before him are Barys Kit (1910), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Orest Khvolson (1852), Leonid Sedov (1907), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), and Roald Sagdeev (1932). After him are Grigory Landsberg (1890).

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