1852 - 1934
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, Orest Khvolson ranks 660 out of 717. Before 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.
1899 - 1981
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 654
1887 - 1964
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 655
1839 - 1919
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 656
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 657
1922 - 2006
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 658
1851 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 659
1852 - 1934
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 660
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 661
1928 - 2016
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 662
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 663
1870 - 1926
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 664
1924 - 1999
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 665
1889 - 1969
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 666
Among people born in 1852, Orest Khvolson ranks 100. Before 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 132. Before 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.
1852 - 1931
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 94
1852 - 1914
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 95
1852 - 1924
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 96
1852 - 1917
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 97
1852 - 1935
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 98
1852 - 1932
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 99
1852 - 1934
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 100
1852 - 1914
HPI: 44.81
Rank: 101
1852 - 1933
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 102
1852 - 1942
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 103
1852 - 1923
HPI: 43.69
Rank: 104
1852 - 1920
HPI: 43.62
Rank: 105
1852 - 1926
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 106
1864 - 1934
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 126
1875 - 1934
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 127
1880 - 1934
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 128
1908 - 1934
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 129
1851 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 130
1874 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 131
1852 - 1934
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 132
1879 - 1934
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 133
1867 - 1934
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 134
1872 - 1934
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 135
1854 - 1934
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 136
1859 - 1934
HPI: 44.13
Rank: 137
1856 - 1934
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 138
Among people born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 1,842 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1875 - 1955
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 1,836
1898 - 1946
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 1,837
1940 - 2019
HPI: 45.11
Rank: 1,838
1960 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 1,839
1965 - Present
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 1,840
1942 - 2001
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 1,841
1852 - 1934
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 1,842
1935 - 2017
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 1,843
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 1,844
1957 - Present
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 1,845
1940 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 1,846
1924 - 2003
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 1,847
1884 - 1967
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 1,848
Among physicists born in Russia, Orest Khvolson ranks 41. Before 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).
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 35
1862 - 1916
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 36
1910 - 2018
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 37
1907 - 1999
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 38
1846 - 1915
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 39
1901 - 1952
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 40
1852 - 1934
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 41
1948 - 2023
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 42
1890 - 1957
HPI: 43.76
Rank: 43