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Vikram Sarabhai

1919 - 1971

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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

Among physicists, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 494 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 155Before 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 107Before 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.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 377 out of 1,493Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Vikram Sarabhai ranks 7Before 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).