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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 59,876 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov is the 346th most popular physicist (down from 285th in 2019), the 618th most popular biography from Russia (down from 407th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 346 out of 717. Before him are Walter A. Shewhart, Ami Argand, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Heinrich Geißler, Donna Strickland, and Edward Witten. After him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, and Hans Kramers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 61. Before him are Hu Shih, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Poul Nielsen, Lajos Zilahy, Walter A. Shewhart, and Gio Ponti. After him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Lilya Brik, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Yvan Goll, Kim Seong-su, and Laura Vicuña. Among people deceased in 1951, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 47. Before him are Nikolai Medtner, Katarzyna Kobro, Agrippina Vaganova, Henrietta Lacks, Serge Koussevitzky, and Ernst von Weizsäcker. After him are Kim Chaek, Artur Schnabel, François Georges-Picot, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Algernon Blackwood, and Lincoln Ellsworth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 618 out of 3,262. Before him are Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Andrei Mironov (1941), Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), and Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829). After him are Andrei Karlov (1954), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Sergey Naryshkin (1954), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), and Igor Ansoff (1918).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 17. Before him are Ilya Frank (1908), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Andre Geim (1958), Yuri Oganessian (1933), and Vladimir Shukhov (1853). After him are Georgy Flyorov (1913), Vladimir Fock (1898), Yulii Khariton (1904), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), and Konstantin Novoselov (1974).

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