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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 160,472 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Vladimir Fock is the 418th most popular physicist (down from 397th in 2019), the 885th most popular biography from Russia (down from 758th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Physicist.

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  • 31

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  • 4.97

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  • 3.01

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Fock ranks 418 out of 717. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter, Erich Hückel, Homi J. Bhabha, Federico Faggin, Yoshio Nishina, and Meghnad Saha. After him are John C. Mather, Heinrich Barkhausen, Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Jules Jamin, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vladimir Fock ranks 111. Before him are Jacques Doriot, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Gabriel González Videla, Eric Hoffer, Achille Van Acker, and Tian Han. After him are Yitzhak Kaduri, Paul Robeson, Vilhelm Moberg, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Irene Dunne, and Benjamin Fondane. Among people deceased in 1974, Vladimir Fock ranks 88. Before him are Walther Meissner, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Candy Darling, Lev Oborin, Rosario Castellanos, and Maximilian de Angelis. After him are Nick Drake, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Olga Baclanova, Donald Crisp, and Kurt Hahn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 885 out of 3,262. Before him are Nikolay Cherkasov (1903), Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937), Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Konstantin of Rostov (1185), Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), and Konstantin Balmont (1867). After him are Olga Rubtsova (1909), Vladimir Stasov (1824), Vasily Tropinin (1776), Léonide Massine (1896), Eleanor of Prussia (1583), and Yusuf Akçura (1876).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 19. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Andre Geim (1958), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), and Georgy Flyorov (1913). After him are Yulii Khariton (1904), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Boris Podolsky (1896), and George Zweig (1937).

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