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Abram Ioffe

1880 - 1960

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Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, IPA: [ɐˈbram ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈofɛ]; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abram Ioffe is the 383rd most popular physicist (down from 364th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 241st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abram Ioffe ranks 383 out of 851. Before him are Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Federico Faggin, Friedrich Paschen, and August Kundt. After him are Vladimir Fock, Edward Witten, George Johnstone Stoney, Qian Xuesen, Donna Strickland, and Christopher Polhem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Abram Ioffe ranks 66. Before him are Alfred Einstein, Hajime Sugiyama, Mikhail Tomsky, Ida Dalser, Mitsumasa Yonai, and Yōsuke Matsuoka. After him are Robert Stolz, Jacques Thibaud, Carl Van Vechten, Charles Huntziger, Vasily Degtyaryov, and Alexander Grin. Among people deceased in 1960, Abram Ioffe ranks 59. Before him are Vicki Baum, Jussi Björling, Yan Xishan, Eddie Cochran, Maurice de Broglie, and José Antonio Aguirre. After him are Pierre Reverdy, Alexandre Benois, Edwin Fischer, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bruno Loerzer, and The Great Gama.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abram Ioffe ranks 247 out of 1,365. Before him are Lina Kostenko (1930), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Andriy Melnyk (1890), and Marian Jaworski (1926). After him are Grigory Kulik (1890), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Aleksandr Medved (1937), and Mark Bernes (1911).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Abram Ioffe ranks 4. Before him are George Gamow (1904), Georges Charpak (1924), and Moshé Feldenkrais (1904). After him are Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Ivan Puluj (1845), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Matvei Bronstein (1906), and Gregory Breit (1899).

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