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Yakov Frenkel

1894 - 1952

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Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель; 10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed-matter physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, frequently using the name J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yakov Frenkel has received more than 77,913 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yakov Frenkel is the 584th most popular physicist (down from 571st in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,435th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yakov Frenkel ranks 584 out of 851. Before him are Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Dirk Coster, Giuseppe Occhialini, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Charles W. Misner, and José Celestino Mutis. After him are Franco Rasetti, William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sergey Kapitsa, and John Robison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Yakov Frenkel ranks 172. Before him are Oskar Maria Graf, Wilhelm Hasse, Norma Talmadge, Alexander P. de Seversky, Lisa Tetzner, and Kurt Blome. After him are Henryk Sławik, Edwin Linkomies, Jack Benny, Surya Sen, Esfir Shub, and Florbela Espanca. Among people deceased in 1952, Yakov Frenkel ranks 115. Before him are Elisabeth Schumann, Artur Kapp, Sergey Merkurov, Ernst Streeruwitz, Elmo Lincoln, and Petros Persakis. After him are Paul Neményi, Solomon Lozovsky, Fletcher Henderson, Sunao Tawara, D. S. Senanayake, and Antti Tulenheimo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Frenkel ranks 1,503 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Sokoloff (1889), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), Oleg Vidov (1943), Aleksei Evert (1857), and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842). After him are Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Helene Fischer (1984), Boris Eikhenbaum (1886), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), and Aleksey Koltsov (1809).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yakov Frenkel ranks 38. Before him are George Zweig (1937), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), and Ludvig Faddeev (1934). After him are Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Barys Kit (1910), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Orest Khvolson (1852), Leonid Sedov (1907), and Aleksandr Andronov (1901).

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