1919 - 1971
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai Jain (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vikram Sarabhai has received more than 6,457,214 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Vikram Sarabhai is the 494th most popular physicist (down from 440th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from India (down from 278th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 494 out of 717. Before him are Dennis W. Sciama, Pierre Weiss, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, and Gunnar Nordström. After him are Michael Green, George Zweig, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Michael Berry, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, and Pyotr Lebedev.
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 488
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 489
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 490
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 491
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 492
1881 - 1923
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 493
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 494
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 495
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 496
1700 - 1782
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 497
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 498
1716 - 1781
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 499
1866 - 1912
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 500
Among people born in 1919, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 155. Before him are John Ljunggren, Howard Keel, Rie Mastenbroek, Pierre Gamarra, Mariano Martín, and Albert Batteux. After him are Hans Hermann Groër, George Shearing, Anita O'Day, Franco Rossi, Tamara Toumanova, and Billy Vaughn. Among people deceased in 1971, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 107. Before him are Henri Tomasi, Antonio Bacci, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Paul Bader, Gaito Gazdanov, and David Sarnoff. After him are Chester Conklin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Maguba Syrtlanova, William F. Albright, Hiratsuka Raichō, and Wasfi Tal.
1919 - 2000
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 149
1919 - 2004
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 150
1919 - 2003
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 151
1919 - 2009
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 152
1919 - 1998
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 153
1919 - 2003
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 154
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 155
1919 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 156
1919 - 2011
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 157
1919 - 2006
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 158
1919 - 2000
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 159
1919 - 1996
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 160
1919 - 1991
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 161
1901 - 1971
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 101
1885 - 1971
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 102
1893 - 1971
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 103
1883 - 1971
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 104
1903 - 1971
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 105
1891 - 1971
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 106
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 107
1886 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 108
1910 - 1971
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 109
1912 - 1971
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 110
1891 - 1971
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 111
1886 - 1971
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 112
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 113
Among people born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 377 out of 1,493. Before him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Bismillah Khan (1916), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), and Kadambini Ganguly (1861). After him are Mala Sinha (1936), Anil Kapoor (1956), Vallabha (1479), R. K. Narayan (1906), Pingali Venkayya (1876), and Margaret Murray (1863).
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 371
1924 - 2010
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 372
1910 - 1967
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 373
1916 - 2006
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 374
1848 - 1925
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 375
1861 - 1923
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 376
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 377
1936 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 378
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 379
1479 - 1531
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 380
1906 - 2001
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 381
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 382
1863 - 1963
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 383
Among physicists born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 7. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), and Jayant Narlikar (1938). After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932).
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 1
1894 - 1974
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 2
1936 - 2021
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 3
1918 - 2001
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 4
1909 - 1966
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 5
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 6
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 7
1893 - 1972
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 8
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 9
1925 - 2004
HPI: 42.88
Rank: 10
1926 - 2020
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 12
1932 - 2017
HPI: 38.87
Rank: 13