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Georgy Flyorov

1913 - 1990

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Georgy Flerov, also spelled Flyorov (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Флёров, romanized: Georgii Nikolayevich Flërov, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ˈflʲɵrəf]; 2 March 1913 – 19 November 1990), was a Soviet physicist who is known for his discovery of spontaneous fission and his important contribution towards the crystallography and material science, for which, he was honored with many awards. In addition, he is also known for his letter directed to Joseph Stalin, during the midst of World War II, to start a program of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union. In 2012, element 114 was named flerovium after the research laboratory at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research bearing his name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Flyorov is the 420th most popular physicist (down from 381st in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 656th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georgy Flyorov ranks 420 out of 851. Before him are William Watson, Lyman Spitzer, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Robert W. Wood, and Bruno Rossi. After him are Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, and Ányos Jedlik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Georgy Flyorov ranks 117. Before him are Willi Hennig, José Sánchez del Río, Mary Kenneth Keller, Philip Abelson, Tikhon Khrennikov, and Wols. After him are Ken Carpenter, Mickey Cohen, Amrita Sher-Gil, Abraham Sutzkever, Hélio Gracie, and Alfred Bester. Among people deceased in 1990, Georgy Flyorov ranks 86. Before him are Harold Eugene Edgerton, Horst Sindermann, Alan Hale Jr., Taro Kagawa, Lewis Mumford, and Thorbjørn Egner. After him are Peter Taylor, Michel Leiris, Lothar Collatz, George de Mestral, Joan Bennett, and Sergei Dovlatov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Flyorov ranks 752 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Kurkov (1961), Lucien Olivier (1838), Vasily Polenov (1844), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886). After him are Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), and Boris Gromov (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Georgy Flyorov ranks 19. Before him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), and Vladimir Fock (1898). After him are Boris Podolsky (1896), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891).

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