1904 - 1990
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в [ˈpavʲɪl ɐlʲɪkˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrʲɪnˈkof]; July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Cherenkov has received more than 232,318 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Pavel Cherenkov is the 122nd most popular physicist (down from 101st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Russia (down from 152nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Physicist.
Pavel Cherenkov is most famous for his discovery of the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation.
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Among physicists, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 122 out of 717. Before him are Aage Bohr, Auguste Piccard, Heinrich Rohrer, François Arago, Walter Houser Brattain, and C. F. Powell. After him are Owen Chamberlain, Leo Szilard, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Arno Allan Penzias, and Percy Williams Bridgman.
1922 - 2009
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 116
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 117
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 118
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 119
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 120
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 122
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 123
1898 - 1964
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 124
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 125
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 126
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 128
Among people born in 1904, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 20. Before him are Alexei Kosygin, Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Joan Crawford, George Gamow, and Ève Curie. After him are René Lacoste, Glenn Miller, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, and John Hicks. Among people deceased in 1990, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 15. Before him are Alberto Moravia, Norbert Elias, Paulette Goddard, Sarah Vaughan, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and John Bowlby. After him are Yun Posun, Sergei Parajanov, Lê Đức Thọ, Keith Haring, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Miguel Muñoz.
1904 - 1980
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 14
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 15
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 16
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 17
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 18
1904 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 19
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 20
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 21
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 22
1904 - 1966
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 23
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 24
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 25
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 26
1907 - 1990
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 9
1897 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 10
1910 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1924 - 1990
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 12
1921 - 1990
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 13
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 15
1897 - 1990
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 16
1924 - 1990
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 17
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 18
1958 - 1990
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 19
1903 - 1990
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 20
1922 - 1990
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 21
Among people born in Russia, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 169 out of 3,262. Before him are Witold Pilecki (1901), El Lissitzky (1890), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Felix Steiner (1896), Gala Dalí (1894), and Vladimir Tatlin (1885). After him are Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), and Anatoly Karpov (1951).
1901 - 1948
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 163
1890 - 1941
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 164
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 165
1896 - 1966
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 166
1894 - 1982
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 167
1885 - 1953
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 168
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 169
1867 - 1945
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 170
1872 - 1929
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 171
1886 - 1971
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 172
1095 - 1157
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 173
1892 - 1941
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 174
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 175
Among physicists born in Russia, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 6. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), and Arnold Sommerfeld (1868). After him are Igor Tamm (1895), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Ilya Frank (1908), and Nikolay Basov (1922).
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 1
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 2
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 3
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 4
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 5
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 6
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 7
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 8
1894 - 1984
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 9
1928 - 2017
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 10
1908 - 1990
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 11
1922 - 2001
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 12