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Gregory Breit

1899 - 1981

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Gregory Breit (Ukrainian: Григорій Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, Russian: Григорий Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, romanized: Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider; July 14, 1899 – September 13, 1981) was an American physicist born in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine). He was a professor at New York University (1929–1934), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale University (1947–1968), and University at Buffalo (1968–1973). In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest's assistant in Leiden University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Breit is the 681st most popular physicist (up from 689th in 2019), the 781st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 804th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregory Breit ranks 681 out of 851. Before him are Norris Bradbury, Edward Andrade, Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, Ralph Kronig, and Hertha Sponer. After him are Alfred Kleiner, Paul Peter Ewald, Aleksandr Andronov, Bert Bolin, Sulamith Goldhaber, and Edwin H. Land.

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Among people born in 1899, Gregory Breit ranks 246. Before him are Ann Bishop, Américo Tesoriere, George Călinescu, Miyamoto Yuriko, Hans Jacob Nielsen, and Yervand Kochar. After him are Jacques Audiberti, John Bodkin Adams, James Smith McDonnell, Renato Sáinz, Virgil Jacomini, and Jack Beresford. Among people deceased in 1981, Gregory Breit ranks 199. Before him are Zoya Fyodorova, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Nils Asther, José María Minella, Crisant Bosch, and Wilfried Puis. After him are Sergio Amidei, Ruby Payne-Scott, Irving Jaffee, Durgabai Deshmukh, Tadeusz Baird, and Paul Bontemps.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 781 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleh Tyahnybok (1968), Vasily Yan (1874), Eduard Gufeld (1936), Józef Kowalski (1900), Sergei Magnitsky (1972), and Vladimir Muntyan (1946). After him are Markus Reiner (1886), Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888), Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), Nina Ruslanova (1945), Yuriy Poyarkov (1937), and Georgy Langemak (1898).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Gregory Breit ranks 12. Before him are Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Ivan Puluj (1845), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), and Matvei Bronstein (1906). After him are Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), and Gersh Budker (1918).

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