1908 - 1996
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Russian: Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Armenian: Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1908 – 12 August 1996) was a Soviet Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's top astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union. Educated at Leningrad State University (LSU) and the Pulkovo Observatory, Ambartsumian taught at LSU and founded the Soviet Union's first department of astrophysics there in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Ambartsumian has received more than 55,821 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Victor Ambartsumian is the 71st most popular astronomer (up from 89th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Astronomer.
Victor Ambartsumian was a Russian-Armenian astronomer who was most famous for discovering the Ambartsumian galaxies.
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Among astronomers, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 71 out of 531. Before him are Gerard Kuiper, Riccardo Giacconi, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, George Darwin, Albert Marth, and William Lassell. After him are Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Max Wolf, Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Stephen Gray, and Petrus Plancius.
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 65
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 66
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 67
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 68
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 69
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 70
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 71
815 - 896
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 72
1863 - 1932
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 73
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 74
1029 - 1087
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 75
1666 - 1736
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 76
1552 - 1622
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 77
Among people born in 1908, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 47. Before him are Joseph Rotblat, Alfred Hershey, Günther Prien, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Arthur Adamov, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Martha Gellhorn, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rex Harrison, Robert Merle, Mercè Rodoreda, and Bernard Lee. Among people deceased in 1996, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 39. Before him are Nevill Francis Mott, Abdus Salam, Masaki Kobayashi, António de Spínola, Ademir de Menezes, and Claudette Colbert. After him are George Davis Snell, Helmut Schön, Gladwyn Jebb, Virginia Henderson, Georges Duby, and William Vickrey.
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 41
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 42
1908 - 1941
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 43
1908 - 1975
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 44
1908 - 1970
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 45
1908 - 1963
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 46
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 47
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 48
1908 - 1967
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 49
1908 - 1990
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 50
1908 - 2004
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 51
1908 - 1983
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 52
1908 - 1981
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 53
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 33
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 34
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 35
1910 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 36
1922 - 1996
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 37
1903 - 1996
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 38
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 39
1903 - 1996
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 40
1915 - 1996
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 41
1900 - 1996
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 42
1897 - 1996
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 43
1919 - 1996
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 44
1914 - 1996
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 45
Among people born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 26 out of 342. Before him are Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), Sergei Witte (1849), Sayat-Nova (1712), Herbert Backe (1896), Giya Kancheli (1935), and Vakhtang I of Iberia (440). After him are Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866), Kato Svanidze (1885), Nicholas Marr (1864), Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), and Besarion Jughashvili (1850).
326 BC - 234 BC
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 20
1849 - 1915
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 21
1712 - 1795
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 22
1896 - 1947
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 23
1935 - 2019
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 24
440 - 502
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 25
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 26
1194 - 1245
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 27
1866 - 1933
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 28
1885 - 1907
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 29
1864 - 1934
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 30
1837 - 1907
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 31
1850 - 1909
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 32
Among astronomers born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 1. After him are Grigory Neujmin (1886) and Benjamin Markarian (1913).
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 1
1886 - 1946
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 2
1913 - 1985
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 3