Physicist

Ratko Janev

Macedonian atomic physicist

1939 - 2019

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His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Ratko Janev is the 247th most popular physicist (up from 309th in 2024), the 24th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Bulgarian Physicist.

Ratko Janev is most famous for being the Bosnian Serb general who led a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Ratko Janev is the most memorable of the 2 notable people born in Sandanski, Bulgaria, ahead of Vasil Metodiev.

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Of the 1 Physicists born in Bulgaria, Ratko Janev ranks first.

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Ratko Janev shares a March 30 birthday with Vincent van Gogh, Mehmed the Conqueror, and Francisco Goya.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Ratko Janev ranks 247 out of 851. Before him are John Cockcroft, Gérard Mourou, William Shockley, David Bohm, Satyendra Nath Bose, and Ivar Giaever. After him are Anton Zeilinger, Kenneth G. Wilson, C. P. Snow, Jim Peebles, Benjamin Thompson, and Leon M. Lederman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ratko Janev ranks 42. Before him are Clay Regazzoni, Tzvetan Todorov, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Wes Craven, and Jorge Sampaio. After him are Ali MacGraw, Richard Kiel, Marie Laforêt, João Bernardo Vieira, Michael Cimino, and Sonny Chiba. Among people deceased in 2019, Ratko Janev ranks 44. Before him are Gordon Banks, Robert Evans, B. J. Habibie, Prem Tinsulanonda, Albert Finney, and René Auberjonois. After him are Li Peng, Lee Radziwill, Marie Laforêt, Sydney Brenner, Andrea Camilleri, and Giya Kancheli.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Ratko Janev ranks 24 out of 415. Before him are Talaat Pasha (1874), Kubrat (605), Saint Naum (830), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Hristo Stoichkov (1966), and Tzvetan Todorov (1939). After him are Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), Sylvie Vartan (1944), Boris Christoff (1914), Fritz Zwicky (1898), John of Rila (876), and Rumen Radev (1963).

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Among physicists born in Bulgaria, Ratko Janev ranks 1. 

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