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BIOLOGIST

Zhores Medvedev

1925 - 2018

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Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zhores Medvedev has received more than 126,483 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Zhores Medvedev is the 392nd most popular biologist (up from 460th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Georgia and the most popular Georgian Biologist.

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  • 130k

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  • 51.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Zhores Medvedev ranks 392 out of 841Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Andrew Fire, Anders Dahl, Olof Swartz, and Moritz Wagner. After him are Georg August Schweinfurth, Ivan Regen, Brian Kobilka, George Bentham, Ludwig Reichenbach, and Julius von Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zhores Medvedev ranks 190Before him are Emilio Eduardo Massera, Scott Carpenter, Carlo Rambaldi, Ilie Verdeț, Prosper Grech, and Don Alden Adams. After him are Nonna Mordyukova, Wojciech Has, Nina Lobkovskaya, Paul Wild, Željko Čajkovski, and Yuval Ne'eman. Among people deceased in 2018, Zhores Medvedev ranks 175Before him are Roger Bannister, Barbara Harris, Lewis Gilbert, Reinhard Hardegen, William Goldman, and Leila Abashidze. After him are Peter Mayle, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Robert Indiana, Sergio Balanzino, Lindsay Kemp, and Antonio Valentín Angelillo.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 111 out of 342Before him are Alimardan Topchubashov (1862), Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868), Maia Chiburdanidze (1961), Anthim the Iberian (1650), Sauromaces I of Iberia (-250), and Leila Abashidze (1929). After him are Ivane Javakhishvili (1876), Nino Burjanadze (1964), Kakha Kaladze (1978), Roy Medvedev (1925), Alex Metreveli (1944), and Dimitri Uznadze (1886).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Georgia

Among biologists born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 1