PHYSICIST

Vladimir Fock

1898 - 1974

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok; Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Fock has received more than 172,756 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Vladimir Fock is the 436th most popular physicist (down from 418th in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 883rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Fock ranks 436 out of 851. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter, Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, and Anatoli Bugorski. After him are Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, Walther Meissner, and Katharine Burr Blodgett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vladimir Fock ranks 107. Before him are Gabriel González Videla, Ferenc Plattkó, Leon Štukelj, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Howard Florey, and Shinichi Suzuki. After him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Paul Robeson, Messali Hadj, Eric Hoffer, and Ernst Wollweber. Among people deceased in 1974, Vladimir Fock ranks 88. Before him are Nick Drake, Bernard Voorhoof, Roberto Assagioli, Maximilian de Angelis, Helmuth Koinigg, and Anfilogino Guarisi. After him are Walther Meissner, Messali Hadj, Donald Crisp, Georgios Grivas, Josef Krips, and Earl Warren.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 872 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Rostopchin (1763), Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), Marfa Sobakina (1552), Anatoly Lukyanov (1930), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), and Maria Sharapova (1987). After him are Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (1868), George Volkoff (1914), Sergei Korsakoff (1854), and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1907).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 22. Before him are Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Yulii Khariton (1904), and Anatoli Bugorski (1942). After him are George Volkoff (1914), Boris Podolsky (1896), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), and Alexei Starobinsky (1948).

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