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 282,942 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Orlov is the 481st most popular physicist (down from 460th in 2019), the 1,054th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,021st in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Orlov ranks 481 out of 851. Before her are Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, and Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost. After her are Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, and John Leslie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yuri Orlov ranks 179. Before her are Arthur Janov, István Nyers, Johannes Mario Simmel, Ramón Castro Ruz, Élias Sarkis, and Aleksandar Tišma. After her are Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Werner Kohlmeyer, John Hansen, Max Roach, Girija Prasad Koirala, and Jean-François Revel. Among people deceased in 2020, Yuri Orlov ranks 205. Before her are Rishi Kapoor, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Shirley Knight, David Stern, Juan Marsé, and David Graeber. After her are Ronald Harwood, Gigi Proietti, Helen Reddy, Mario Corso, Alfred Worden, and Pierino Prati.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 1,054 out of 3,761. Before her are Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Irina Shayk (1986), Alexander Guchkov (1862), Eleanor of Prussia (1583), Innocent of Alaska (1797), and Georg Ots (1920). After her are Endel Tulving (1927), Lev Oborin (1907), Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824), Andrei Kirilenko (1906), Leonid Leonov (1899), and Dmitry Likhachov (1906).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 27. Before her are Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Vladimir Fock (1898), George Volkoff (1914), Boris Podolsky (1896), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), and Emil Wiechert (1861). After her are Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Andrei Linde (1948), Max Wien (1866), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), George Zweig (1937), and Boris Rosing (1869).

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