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PHYSICIST

Yuri Orlov

1924 - 2020

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Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group,. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Orlov has received more than 258,087 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yuri Orlov is the 460th most popular physicist (up from 530th in 2019), the 1,023rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,159th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Orlov ranks 460 out of 717Before her are Walter Heitler, Alan Sokal, Stefan Hell, Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, and Anton Zeilinger. After her are Max Abraham, Marian Smoluchowski, Joseph Larmor, John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, and John Canton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yuri Orlov ranks 188Before her are Jean Laplanche, Leon Uris, S. N. Goenka, Olivier Gendebien, Élias Sarkis, and Arthur Janov. After her are Rudolf Barshai, José Donoso, Marjorie Boulton, Philip Stone, Luděk Pachman, and Josef Škvorecký. Among people deceased in 2020, Yuri Orlov ranks 208Before her are Robert Shavlakadze, Branko Kostić, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Suzy Delair, Edén Pastora, and Sonja Ziemann. After her are Walid Muallem, Shirley Knight, Milton Glaser, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Tony Allen, and Enzo Mari.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 1,023 out of 3,262Before her are Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926), Sergey Sobyanin (1958), Andrei Amalrik (1938), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), Anatoly Berezovoy (1942), and Yuri Levitan (1914). After her are Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), Oleg Kalugin (1934), Rudolf Barshai (1924), Orest Kiprensky (1782), and Sergei Solovyov (1944).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 22Before her are Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Vladimir Fock (1898), Yulii Khariton (1904), and Emil Wiechert (1861). After her are Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Boris Podolsky (1896), George Zweig (1937), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), and Boris Rosing (1869).