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Orest Khvolson

1852 - 1934

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Orest Danilovich Khvolson or Chwolson (Russian: Орест Данилович Хвольсон; December 4 [O.S. November 22] 1852 – May 11, 1934) was a Russian and later Soviet physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1920). He is most noted for being one of the first to study the gravitational lens effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Orest Khvolson is the 673rd most popular physicist (down from 658th in 2019), the 1,824th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,814th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Orest Khvolson ranks 673 out of 851Before him are Edith Clarke, Yoshiaki Arata, Brandon Carter, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, and Ali Javan. After him are Alvin M. Weinberg, Norris Bradbury, Edward Andrade, Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, and Ralph Kronig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Orest Khvolson ranks 105Before him are Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, Curt von François, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Fulgence Bienvenüe, Daniel De Leon, and Johan Ramstedt. After him are Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Lin Shu, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, Léon Moreaux, and Joseph Timchenko. Among people deceased in 1934, Orest Khvolson ranks 130Before him are Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Sergey Oldenburg, Oskar von Miller, E. A. Wallis Budge, Toros Toramanian, and Blind Blake. After him are Eduard Bagritsky, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Mikhail Matyushin, Paul Henri Lecomte, Claudio Williman, and Cecilia Grierson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 1,824 out of 3,761Before him are Feodor Gladkov (1883), Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), Boris Vasilyev (1924), Vladimir Solovyov (1963), Zoya Fyodorova (1909), and Sten Suvio (1911). After him are Alexey Favorsky (1860), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Mikhail Kozakov (1934), Ivan Perestiani (1870), Oleg Anofriyev (1930), and Boris Babochkin (1904).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 40Before him are Yakov Frenkel (1894), Yulii Khariton (1904), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Max Wien (1866), Barys Kit (1910), and Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945). After him are Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), Grigory Landsberg (1890), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), and Roald Sagdeev (1932).