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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

1891 - 1951

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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf]; 24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. His elder brother Nikolai Vavilov was a famous Russian geneticist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov is the 484th most popular physicist (down from 411th in 2019), the 979th most popular biography from Russia (down from 799th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 484 out of 851. Before him are Andrei Linde, Marian Smoluchowski, Alan Sokal, Jacques Babinet, Max Abraham, and Martin Knudsen. After him are Johann Heinrich Schulze, Robert Brout, Macedonio Melloni, Theodore Hall, Jayant Narlikar, and Johann Christian Poggendorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 125. Before him are Pavlo Tychyna, Greta Schröder, Abraham Fraenkel, Jan Mukařovský, Hélène Sparrow, and Julio Baghy. After him are Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Juan Yagüe, Zdeněk Fierlinger, John W. McCormack, Wilder Penfield, and Boris Iofan. Among people deceased in 1951, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 85. Before him are Simon Kimbangu, Ernest Bevin, Bernhard Kellermann, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Karl Koller, and Erich Neumann. After him are Lippo Hertzka, Paula von Preradović, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Louis Lavelle, Fumiko Hayashi, and Henry Carton de Wiart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 979 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Oborin (1907), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Boris Mikhailov (1944), Leonid Kuravlyov (1936), Angelina Beloff (1879), and Elena Obraztsova (1939). After him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), Tamara Toumanova (1919), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), and Pavel Durov (1984).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ranks 25. Before him are Georgy Flyorov (1913), Boris Podolsky (1896), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), and Andrei Linde (1948). After him are George Zweig (1937), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Yuri Orlov (1924), George Volkoff (1914), Vladimir Steklov (1864), and Ludvig Faddeev (1934).

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