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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 41,131 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nikolay Umov is the 646th most popular physicist (down from 628th in 2019), the 1,792nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,596th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nikolay Umov ranks 646 out of 717Before him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Edward Condon, Leonid Sedov, Mark Oliphant, Zoltán Lajos Bay, and César Lattes. After him are Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, Leona Woods, Aleksandr Andronov, and Peter Mark Roget.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Nikolay Umov ranks 96Before him are Svatopluk Čech, László Paál, Elizabeth Thompson, Anna Katharine Green, Karol Olszewski, and William McGregor. After him are Arsène Darmesteter, Björn Jónsson, Marco Aurelio Soto, Edward S. Holden, Rose Cleveland, and Randolph Caldecott. Among people deceased in 1915, Nikolay Umov ranks 98Before him are George Nares, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Kálmán Széll, Karol Olszewski, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, and Kolos Ferenc Vaszary. After him are Anthony Wilding, Greene Vardiman Black, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Solomon Schechter, Béla Las-Torres, and Antonio Flores Jijón.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 1,792 out of 3,262Before him are Boris Morukov (1950), Peter Lesgaft (1837), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), Vladimir Martynov (1946), and Maria Klenova (1898). After him are Sergey Gorodetsky (1884), Timofey Granovsky (1813), Mukhu Aliyev (1940), Lyubov Polishchuk (1949), Kirill Petrenko (1972), and Andrei Eshpai (1925).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 39Before him are Lev Artsimovich (1909), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Barys Kit (1910), and Leonid Sedov (1907). After him are Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Orest Khvolson (1852), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), and Grigory Landsberg (1890).