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Nikolai Kardashev

1932 - 2019

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Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Кардашёв, romanized: Nikolay Semyonovich Kardashyov, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲɪˈmʲɵnəvʲɪtɕ kərdɐˈʂof]; April 25, 1932 – August 3, 2019) was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist best known for the Kardashev scale, which measures a civilization's status in technological evolution based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using. He was also the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Kardashev is the 124th most popular inventor (up from 125th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from Russia (up from 475th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 124 out of 426. Before him are James Hargreaves, Edmund Cartwright, Theobald Boehm, Franz Reichelt, Samuel Crompton, and Hans von Ohain. After him are Paul Otlet, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., André Michelin, Alfred Krupp, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., and Robert Adler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 97. Before him are Muhammad Khan Junejo, David Scott, Peter Eisenman, Delphine Seyrig, Petula Clark, and Joseph Zen. After him are Emmanuelle Arsan, Pier Angeli, Wojciech Kilar, Nagisa Oshima, José Saraiva Martins, and Antonio Tejero. Among people deceased in 2019, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 78. Before him are Alicia Alonso, Owen Garriott, Claudine Auger, César Pelli, Michael Atiyah, and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. After him are Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Mirjana Marković, Moshe Arens, Henri, Count of Paris, Michel Serres, and Valery Bykovsky.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 441 out of 3,761. Before him are Valentin Serov (1865), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Yakov Yurovsky (1878), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Helena of Moscow (1476), and Andrei Platonov (1899). After him are Grigory Sokolov (1950), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Leonid Rogozov (1934), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Nikolai Kardashev ranks 5. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), and Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888). After him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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