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Vikram Sarabhai

1919 - 1971

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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vikram Sarabhai has received more than 6,723,035 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Vikram Sarabhai is the 463rd most popular physicist (up from 494th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from India (up from 374th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 463 out of 851. Before him are William Watson, Jules Jamin, Rashid Sunyaev, Giovanni Aldini, Christian Mayer, and Eugen Goldstein. After him are Pierre Victor Auger, Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, and Dennis W. Sciama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 115. Before him are J. Presper Eckert, Morteza Motahhari, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Artur Fischer, Bernhard Wicki, and Anatoly Dobrynin. After him are Doris Miller, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Paavo Aaltonen, Wasfi Tal, Hyman Minsky, and Red Buttons. Among people deceased in 1971, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 84. Before him are Georgi Asparuhov, Joseph Valachi, Georgy Babakin, Mikhail Yangel, Bella Darvi, and Gertrud von Le Fort. After him are Mikhail Romm, Wasfi Tal, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Otto Lasch, James Alberione, and Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 338 out of 1,861. Before him are Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Rakesh Sharma (1949), Anish Kapoor (1954), and Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939). After him are Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Wilfred Bion (1897), Jim Corbett (1875), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Pulakeshin II (610), and Guru Hargobind (1595).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 6. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Anna Mani (1918), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), and Homi J. Bhabha (1909). After him are Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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