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PHYSICIST

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 29,616 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Orest Khvolson is the 660th most popular physicist (down from 413th in 2019), the 1,842nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,530th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Orest Khvolson ranks 660 out of 717Before him are Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, George F. R. Ellis, Valentine Telegdi, and Arthur Schuster. After him are Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, Antonius van den Broek, Humberto Fernández-Morán, and Vilho Väisälä.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Orest Khvolson ranks 100Before him are Curt von François, Carl Chun, Lin Shu, James Dwight, Johan Ramstedt, and Theo Heemskerk. After him are Daniel De Leon, Henry van Dyke Jr., Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, Charles Kent, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, and Kristján Jónsson. Among people deceased in 1934, Orest Khvolson ranks 132Before him are Toros Toramanian, José Santos Chocano, Majit Gafuri, Hélène Boucher, Arthur Schuster, and Bunzō Hayata. After him are Ferenc Móra, Alec B. Francis, Leonid Sobinov, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Cecilia Grierson, and Paul Henri Lecomte.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 1,842 out of 3,262Before him are Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov (1875), Boris Lisunov (1898), Albert Razin (1940), Vladimir Salnikov (1960), Alexei Mordashov (1965), and Pavel Sadyrin (1942). After him are Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Yelena Vyalbe (1968), Andrei Bukin (1957), Vyacheslav Starshinov (1940), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), and Max Taut (1884).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 41Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Barys Kit (1910), Leonid Sedov (1907), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Aleksandr Andronov (1901). After him are Alexei Starobinsky (1948) and Grigory Landsberg (1890).