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 174,147 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Pavel Cherenkov is the 101st most popular physicist (down from 75th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 102nd 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 101 out of 721. Before him are William Henry Bragg, Barry Barish, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Glover Barkla, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Hippolyte Fizeau. After him are Joseph Henry, C. F. Powell, Eugene Wigner, Clinton Davisson, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Manne Siegbahn.
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 95
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 96
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 97
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 98
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 99
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 100
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 101
1797 - 1878
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 102
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 103
1902 - 1995
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 104
1881 - 1958
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 105
1774 - 1862
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 106
1886 - 1978
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 107
Among people born in 1904, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 15. Before him are Cary Grant, Johnny Weissmuller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Gabin, Graham Greene, and George Gamow. After him are Alexei Kosygin, Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, René Lacoste, Harry Martinson, and John Hicks. Among people deceased in 1990, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 14. Before him are Leonard Bernstein, Alberto Moravia, Norbert Elias, Sarah Vaughan, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Paulette Goddard. After him are John Bowlby, Yun Posun, Sergei Parajanov, Ilya Frank, Lê Đức Thọ, and Boris Shcherbina.
1904 - 1986
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 9
1904 - 1984
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 10
1904 - 1967
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 11
1904 - 1976
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 12
1904 - 1991
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 13
1904 - 1968
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 15
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 16
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 17
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1904 - 1996
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1904 - 1978
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 21
1918 - 1990
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 8
1907 - 1990
HPI: 76.90
Rank: 9
1897 - 1990
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 10
1924 - 1990
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 11
1921 - 1990
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 12
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 13
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 14
1907 - 1990
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 15
1897 - 1990
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 16
1924 - 1990
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 17
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 18
1911 - 1990
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 19
1919 - 1990
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 20
Among people born in Russia, Pavel Cherenkov ranks 153 out of 2,688. Before him are Semyon Budyonny (1883), Alexander Glazunov (1865), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Stenka Razin (1630), Joseph Brodsky (1940), and Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795). After him are Andrey Vlasov (1901), Alexei Rykov (1881), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), and Alexei Kosygin (1904).
1883 - 1973
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 147
1865 - 1936
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 148
1883 - 1948
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 149
1630 - 1671
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 150
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 151
1795 - 1865
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 152
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 153
1901 - 1946
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 154
1881 - 1938
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 155
1872 - 1929
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 156
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 157
1350 - 1389
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 158
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 159
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), Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Nikolay Basov (1922), and Igor Kurchatov (1903).
1824 - 1887
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 1
1921 - 1989
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 2
1864 - 1928
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 3
1711 - 1765
HPI: 77.41
Rank: 4
1868 - 1951
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 5
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 6
1895 - 1971
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 7
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 8
1894 - 1984
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 9
1928 - 2017
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 10
1922 - 2001
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 11
1903 - 1960
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 12