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 135,647 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Zhores Medvedev is the 444th most popular biologist (down from 391st in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 111th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

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  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Zhores Medvedev ranks 444 out of 1,097. Before him are Ernst Hartert, Alwin Berger, Takenoshin Nakai, William Hudson, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Heinrich Boie. After him are Luther Burbank, Heinrich Schrader, Friedrich Boie, Alfred Grandidier, Heinrich Kuhl, and Georg August Goldfuss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zhores Medvedev ranks 206. Before him are Edward Gorey, Michael Halliday, Paul Wild, Maureen Stapleton, Rubem Fonseca, and Justo Gallego Martínez. After him are Matías González, Ilie Verdeț, Mike Connors, Robert Mulligan, David Warren, and Czesław Kiszczak. Among people deceased in 2018, Zhores Medvedev ranks 183. Before him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Vladimir Lyakhov, Tab Hunter, Edgar Hilsenrath, Penny Marshall, and Jesús López Cobos. After him are Abbas, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, René Houseman, Luigi Taveri, Gianfranco Parolini, and Philip Bosco.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 125 out of 406. Before him are Alex Metreveli (1944), Vakhushti of Kartli (1696), Vasil Mzhavanadze (1902), Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (1893), Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze (1929), and Mikheil Chiaureli (1894). After him are Dimitri Uznadze (1886), David Kipiani (1951), Kosta Khetagurov (1859), Shota Arveladze (1973), Alexander Svanidze (1886), and Zacharia Paliashvili (1871).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Georgia

Among biologists born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 1. 

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