PHYSICIST

Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

1891 - 1951

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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf]; 24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov has received more than 61,836 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov is the 410th most popular physicist (down from 346th in 2019), the 799th most popular biography from Russia (down from 617th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 410 out of 851. Before him are Walther Gerlach, John Canton, Wander Johannes de Haas, John Dollond, Edwin Hall, and Stefan Hell. After him are Vladimir Chelomey, Henri Tresca, Fabiola Gianotti, Robert Serber, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Evelyn Fox Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 84. Before him are Tin Ujević, Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, Kálmán Kalocsay, Charles Munch, and Kim Seong-su. After him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, Hermann Scherchen, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Antoine Pinay, Hans Albers, and Ivan Vinogradov. Among people deceased in 1951, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 65. Before him are Algernon Blackwood, Robert Grant Aitken, Tadeusz Borowski, Serge Koussevitzky, Maria Montez, and Eugen Meindl. After him are Wols, Robert Walker, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Lincoln Ellsworth, Erich Neumann, and Ernest Bevin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 799 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoly Stessel (1848), Franz Schlegelberger (1876), Oleg Salenko (1969), Oleg Gordievsky (1938), Pavel Belyayev (1925), and Andrey Arshavin (1981). After him are Samuil Marshak (1887), Leonid Krasin (1870), Pyotr Chaadayev (1794), Yuri Norstein (1941), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), and Arsen Kotsoyev (1872).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 19. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), and Georgy Flyorov (1913). After him are Yulii Khariton (1904), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Vladimir Fock (1898), George Volkoff (1914), Boris Podolsky (1896), and Pyotr Lebedev (1866).

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