PHYSICIST

Vladimir Shukhov

1853 - 1939

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method. Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Shukhov has received more than 204,605 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Shukhov is the 372nd most popular physicist (down from 334th in 2019), the 638th most popular biography from Russia (down from 576th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 372 out of 851. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, Maurice de Broglie, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Jean-Antoine Nollet, and Carlo Matteucci. After him are Carl Wieman, Yoshio Nishina, Jurij Vega, Homi J. Bhabha, Peter Mansfield, and John Mauchly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 36. Before him are Vladimir Korolenko, Antonio Salandra, Francesco Filippini, Sophia Perovskaya, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and Fritz von Below. After him are Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Elihu Thomson, Roberto Ferruzzi, and Damat Ferid Pasha. Among people deceased in 1939, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 44. Before him are Isaac Carasso, Hans Langsdorff, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Norman Bethune, Carl Laemmle, and Wu Peifu. After him are Bruno Liljefors, Grigori Sokolnikov, Armand Călinescu, Kolë Idromeno, Eugen Weidmann, and Bronisława Dłuska.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 638 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Chernov (1873), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), Caran d'Ache (1858), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), and Oleg Popov (1930). After him are Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Sergei Ivanov (1953), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), and Ivan Maisky (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 17. Before him are Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Yuri Oganessian (1933), and Andre Geim (1958). After him are Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Yulii Khariton (1904), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Vladimir Fock (1898), and George Volkoff (1914).

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