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Orest Khvolson

1852 - 1934

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Orest Danilovich Khvolson or Chwolson (Russian: Орест Данилович Хвольсон) (November 22 (N.S. December 4), 1852 – May 11, 1934) was a Russian and later Soviet physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1920). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orest Khvolson has received more than 32,216 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Orest Khvolson is the 657th most popular physicist (up from 660th in 2019), the 1,814th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,838th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Orest Khvolson ranks 657 out of 851. Before him are Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, César Lattes, Michael Berry, Lee Smolin, Franz Josef Gerstner, and Maurice Goldhaber. After him are Adriaan Fokker, Hans Reissner, Mordehai Milgrom, Paul Peter Ewald, Christian Møller, and Charles H. Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Orest Khvolson ranks 103. Before him are Theodore Robinson, Hans Huber, Eilif Peterssen, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, and Johan Ramstedt. After him are George Moore, Joseph Timchenko, John Neville Keynes, Daniel De Leon, Theo Heemskerk, and Eugène Mougin. Among people deceased in 1934, Orest Khvolson ranks 125. Before him are Gustav de Vries, Zabel Sibil Asadour, Aristarkh Belopolsky, E. A. Wallis Budge, Nelly Diener, and Eduard Bagritsky. After him are Wallace Fard Muhammad, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Pretty Boy Floyd, Sergey Oldenburg, Bunzō Hayata, and Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 1,814 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Vasilyev (1924), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Leonid Spirin (1932), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Nikolai Klyuev (1884), and Albert Razin (1940). After him are Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Zainab Biisheva (1908), Nina Grebeshkova (1930), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967), and Karandash (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Barys Kit (1910), and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862). After him are Leonid Sedov (1907), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Roald Sagdeev (1932), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Grigory Landsberg (1890).

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