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Nikolay Umov

1846 - 1915

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Nikolay Alekseevich Umov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич У́мов; January 23, 1846 – January 15, 1915) was a Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Umov is the 692nd most popular physicist (up from 724th in 2019), the 1,914th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,125th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nikolay Umov ranks 692 out of 851Before him are Sulamith Goldhaber, Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, Nicholas Kurti, Bengt Edlén, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. After him are Michael Fisher, Maurice Goldhaber, Leo Kadanoff, Yoseph Imry, Burkhard Heim, and John Joly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Nikolay Umov ranks 104Before him are Edward S. Holden, Carrie Nation, Arsène Darmesteter, Pieter Cort van der Linden, Eugen Baumann, and Marco Aurelio Soto. After him are Elizabeth Thompson, Benigno Ferreira, William McGregor, Federico Chueca, Max Fürbringer, and Björn Jónsson. Among people deceased in 1915, Nikolay Umov ranks 111Before him are Frank James, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, George Nares, Kálmán Széll, Édouard Vaillant, and Désiré Charnay. After him are Lajos Gönczy, Pyotr Durnovo, Greene Vardiman Black, Bagha Jatin, Béla Las-Torres, and Daniel Giraud Elliot.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 1,914 out of 3,761Before him are Leon Benois (1856), Gennady Nevelskoy (1813), Alexander Ablesimov (1742), Vitalik Buterin (1994), Andrei Eshpai (1925), and Oleg Menshikov (1960). After him are Anahit Tsitsikian (1926), Alexander Kalyagin (1942), Ramazan Abdulatipov (1946), Lev Alburt (1945), Nikolai Panin (1872), and Natalia Molchanova (1962).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Nikolay Umov ranks 42Before him are Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Max Wien (1866), Barys Kit (1910), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Orest Khvolson (1852), and Aleksandr Andronov (1901). After him are Grigory Landsberg (1890), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Roald Sagdeev (1932), and Leonid Sedov (1907).