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Leonid Sedov

1907 - 1999

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Leonid Ivanovich Sedov (Russian: Леонид Иванович Седов; 14 November 1907, Rostov-on-Don – 5 September 1999, Moscow) was a Russian physicist who worked as an engineer in the former Soviet space program. In 1930 Sedov graduated from the Moscow State University, where he had been a student of Sergey Chaplygin, with the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematical Sciences. He later became a professor at the university. During World War II, he devised the so-called Sedov Similarity Solution for a blast wave, now called Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave after three scientists who did that independently. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Sedov is the 765th most popular physicist (down from 695th in 2019), the 2,276th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,966th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leonid Sedov ranks 765 out of 851. Before him are Jacques Friedel, Lene Hau, Charles Sheffield, Bertrand Halperin, Peter Zoller, and Léon Rosenfeld. After him are Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Robert Marshak, Ernst Stueckelberg, Gersh Budker, Ronald Drever, and Paul Corkum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Leonid Sedov ranks 354. Before him are N. G. L. Hammond, Jacques Barzun, Célestin Delmer, Jules Roy, Farid Simaika, and Kalle Jalkanen. After him are Lotfia Elnadi, Rolf Jacobsen, Joseph Gonzales, Adalbert Püllöck, Rudolf Krause, and Mike Mazurki. Among people deceased in 1999, Leonid Sedov ranks 274. Before him are Jack Lynch, Irving Rapper, Charles Brown, Zully Moreno, Augustus Pablo, and Maigonis Valdmanis. After him are Teodor Kocerka, Mohammad Mohammadullah, Marie Kraja, Vladimir Yashchenko, Anthony Newley, and Davor Dujmović.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Sedov ranks 2,276 out of 3,761. Before him are Anastasia Myskina (1981), Pavel Tonkov (1969), Eteri Tutberidze (1974), Alexei Venediktov (1955), Tamara Bykova (1958), and Rinnat Safin (1940). After him are Tamara Manina (1934), Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja (1945), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Kira Ivanova (1963), Maria Vorontsova (1985), and Fedor Samokhin (1918).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Leonid Sedov ranks 47. Before him are Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), Grigory Landsberg (1890), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), and Roald Sagdeev (1932).

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