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Alexander Markovich Polyakov

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Alexander Markovich Polyakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Поляко́в; born 27 September 1945) is a Russian theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow and, since 1989, at Princeton University, where he is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Markovich Polyakov is the 666th most popular physicist (down from 561st in 2019), the 1,797th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,412th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 666 out of 851Before him are Alexis Thérèse Petit, Matvei Bronstein, Michael Green, Mario Livio, Seth Neddermeyer, and Helen Quinn. After him are Edith Clarke, Yoshiaki Arata, Brandon Carter, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, and Ali Javan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 448Before him are Portia Simpson-Miller, Mario Livio, Leslie West, Francisco Sá, Erwin Vandendaele, and Roland Moreno. After him are Gulnazar Keldi, Ralph Siegel, Clive Russell, Jürgen Möllemann, Johan Devrindt, and Masahiro Hasemi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 1,797 out of 3,761Before him are Ivan Babushkin (1873), Andrei Kolkoutine (1957), Yury Malyshev (1941), Mukhu Aliyev (1940), Tamara Rylova (1931), and Boris Chicherin (1828). After him are Geydar Dzhemal (1947), Pavel Kolchin (1930), Svetlana Kuznetsova (1985), Irina Alfyorova (1951), Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900), and Leonid Sobolev (1844).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexander Markovich Polyakov ranks 39Before him are Lev Artsimovich (1909), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Yulii Khariton (1904), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Max Wien (1866), and Barys Kit (1910). After him are Orest Khvolson (1852), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), Grigory Landsberg (1890), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862).