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Boris Borisovich Golitsyn

1862 - 1916

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Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (Russian: Борис Борисович Голицын, 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1862 – 17 May [O.S. 4 May] 1916) was a prominent Russian Empire physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906. He was one of the founders of modern Seismology. In 1911 he was chosen to be the president of the International Seismology Association. He was a plenary speaker on the International Congress of mathematicians in Cambridge 1912, and in 1916 was elected as member of the Royal Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Borisovich Golitsyn is the 726th most popular physicist (down from 649th in 2019), the 2,089th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,789th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 726 out of 851. Before him are Stuart Hameroff, Raymond Gosling, Bill Nye, Ernst Ising, Charles Stark Draper, and Rudolf Haag. After him are Nicholas Metropolis, Gerald Guralnik, Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Gordon, Arthur Schuster, and James Hartle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 140. Before him are Vladimir Burtsev, Concepción Aleixandre, Antoni Lange, Christopher Cradock, Horatio Caro, and M. R. James. After him are John R. Commons, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Adolf Bartels, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Semyon Nadson. Among people deceased in 1916, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 142. Before him are Lorenzo Latorre, Mary Everest Boole, Samu Fóti, Charles Dawson, Aeneas Mackintosh, and Gorch Fock. After him are Charles Ericksen, Guido Gozzano, Alexander Voeikov, Lydia Zvereva, Hermann Martens, and Tom Clarke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 2,089 out of 3,761. Before him are Yelena Safonova (1956), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832), Dmitri Radchenko (1970), Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev (1952), and Alexei Kasatonov (1959). After him are Aleksandr Laveykin (1951), Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946), Olga Knyazeva (1954), Vladimir Kiselyov (1957), Vladimir Martynov (1946), and Ratmir Kholmov (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ranks 45. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Orest Khvolson (1852), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), Grigory Landsberg (1890), and Alexei Starobinsky (1948). After him are Roald Sagdeev (1932), and Leonid Sedov (1907).

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