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Isaak Kikoin

1908 - 1984

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Isaak Konstantinovich (Kushelevich) Kikoin (Russian: Исаак Константинович (Кушелевич) Кикоин; 28 March 1908 – 28 December 1984), D.N., was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaak Kikoin is the 637th most popular physicist (up from 684th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 164th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Isaak Kikoin ranks 637 out of 851. Before him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, Balthasar van der Pol, Yvette Cauchois, Abraham Pais, James Hansen, and Gordon Gould. After him are Lee Smolin, Julius Wess, Ferdinand Monoyer, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Harold Brown, and Jan Burgers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Isaak Kikoin ranks 276. Before him are Aleksei Arbuzov, Helmut Käutner, Jenő Vincze, Tommaso Landolfi, Winston Graham, and Arkhip Lyulka. After him are Louis Daquin, Rudolf Gramlich, Marina Ladynina, Gioacchino Guaragna, Paolo Monti, and Nicolás Lindley López. Among people deceased in 1984, Isaak Kikoin ranks 171. Before him are Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Kurt Martti Wallenius, Roger Blin, Max Newman, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, and Arkhip Lyulka. After him are Elizabeth Goudge, Diana Dors, Jakub Berman, Marcel Moyse, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, and Alice Neel.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Isaak Kikoin ranks 144 out of 328. Before him are Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), Napoleon Cybulski (1854), Meir Vilner (1918), Jonas Kazlauskas (1954), Kārlis Zāle (1888), and Władysław Komar (1940). After him are Osip Senkovsky (1800), Irena Degutienė (1949), Bohdan Paczyński (1940), Ben Shahn (1898), Źmitrok Biadula (1886), and Regimantas Adomaitis (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Lithuania

Among physicists born in Lithuania, Isaak Kikoin ranks 1. 

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