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PHYSICIST

Yulii Khariton

1904 - 1996

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Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 February 1904 – 18 December 1996) was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. Since the initiation of the Soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yulii Khariton has received more than 145,143 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yulii Khariton is the 425th most popular physicist (up from 473rd in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from Russia (up from 976th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Physicist.

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  • 21

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  • 2.75

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yulii Khariton ranks 425 out of 717. Before her are John C. Mather, Heinrich Barkhausen, Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Jules Jamin, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. After her are Walther Gerlach, Rudolf Peierls, Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, and Marie Alfred Cornu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Yulii Khariton ranks 124. Before her are Tevfik Esenç, James J. Gibson, William L. Shirer, Ralph Bunche, Ivar Ballangrud, and Seán MacBride. After her are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helen Kane, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Joseph Schmidt, and Edvard Kocbek. Among people deceased in 1996, Yulii Khariton ranks 108. Before her are Ai Qing, Cao Yu, Jerry Siegel, Edison Denisov, Károly Grósz, and Muhammad al-Badr. After her are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Jo Van Fleet, Antonín Mrkos, Margaux Hemingway, Shams Pahlavi, and Brunó Ferenc Straub.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yulii Khariton ranks 896 out of 3,262. Before her are Eleanor of Prussia (1583), Yusuf Akçura (1876), Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Oleg Salenko (1969), Aleksei Gubarev (1931), and Alexander Novikov (1900). After her are Vasily Livanov (1935), Sergei Kruglov (1907), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), and Kuzma Minin (1616).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yulii Khariton ranks 20. Before her are Andre Geim (1958), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Georgy Flyorov (1913), and Vladimir Fock (1898). After her are Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Boris Podolsky (1896), George Zweig (1937), and Pyotr Lebedev (1866).

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