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Sylvia Fedoruk

1927 - 2012

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Sylvia Olga Fedoruk ([Fe-doruk]; Ukrainian: Федорук) (May 5, 1927 – September 26, 2012) was a Canadian physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, from 1988 to 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Fedoruk has received more than 52,259 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Fedoruk is the 825th most popular physicist (down from 759th in 2019), the 784th most popular biography from Canada (down from 736th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sylvia Fedoruk ranks 825 out of 851. Before her are Paul Steinhardt, Jim Al-Khalili, Carver Mead, Mary K. Gaillard, Sabine Hossenfelder, and G. N. Ramachandran. After her are Sidney Drell, Nathan Seiberg, He Jiankui, Paul Ginsparg, Gian Francesco Giudice, and Jacqueline Hewitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Sylvia Fedoruk ranks 483. Before her are John Dankworth, Babatunde Olatunji, Red Kelly, Connie Kay, Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, and Peggy McCay. After her are Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, John Seigenthaler, Jim Fuchs, Lois Nettleton, Ted Burgin, and Nayantara Sahgal. Among people deceased in 2012, Sylvia Fedoruk ranks 487. Before her are Don Cornelius, António Leitão, Roman Totenberg, Jerry Nelson, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, and Joan Taylor. After her are Thomas Kinkade, Michael Dokes, Eduard Ivanov, Miguel Calero, Dave Sexton, and Keith Gardner.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Sylvia Fedoruk ranks 784 out of 1,622. Before her are Bruce Fairbairn (1949), Myriam Bédard (1969), Philip J. Currie (1949), Joël Lautier (1973), Christina Cox (1971), and Stephen Elop (1963). After her are Eddie Shore (1902), Dylan Neal (1969), Lisa Jakub (1978), Irving Kaplansky (1917), William Edmond Logan (1798), and Gerald Emmett Carter (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Sylvia Fedoruk ranks 10. Before her are Jim Peebles (1935), Donna Strickland (1959), Louis Slotin (1910), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), and Paul Corkum (1943).

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