PHYSICIST

Sergey Kapitsa

1928 - 2012

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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Сергей Петрович Капица; 14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Kapitsa has received more than 64,597 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Kapitsa is the 590th most popular physicist (down from 523rd in 2019), the 2,984th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,603rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Physicist.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 590 out of 851. Before him are José Celestino Mutis, Yakov Frenkel, Franco Rasetti, William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. After him are John Robison, Prosper-René Blondlot, Georg Adolf Erman, Wallace Clement Sabine, Clyde Cowan, and Joan Feynman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 348. Before him are Dara Singh, Art Farmer, Flóra Kádár, Leon Fleisher, António Ribeiro, and Giacomo Biffi. After him are Elina Bystritskaya, Minas Avetisyan, Károly Sándor, Veijo Meri, William Trevor, and Dezső Bundzsák. Among people deceased in 2012, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 237. Before him are R. G. Armstrong, Marie Colvin, André Simon, Dara Singh, John Christopher, and Yash Chopra. After him are Hector Bianciotti, James Farentino, Moshe Sanbar, Mike Wallace, Susanne Lothar, and Armand Penverne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 2,984 out of 8,785. Before him are Sue Townsend (1946), Enoch Powell (1912), James Francis Stephens (1792), Hermione Baddeley (1906), Mark Sheppard (1964), and John Peel (1939). After him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), Fred Karno (1866), Hubert Parry (1848), Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), and Geoff Nicholls (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 62. Before him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), Joseph Larmor (1857), and James David Forbes (1809). After him are John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), and Frederick Guthrie (1833).

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