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Valery Legasov

1936 - 1988

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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also presented the findings of an investigation to the International Atomic Energy Agency at the United Nations Office at Vienna, detailing the actions and circumstances that led to the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valery Legasov is the 92nd most popular chemist (down from 41st in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Russia (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Chemist.

Valery Legasov is most famous for being the deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He was in charge of investigating the nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Valery Legasov ranks 92 out of 602. Before him are James B. Sumner, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, J. D. Bernal, Ernst Otto Fischer, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Theodor Svedberg. After him are M. Stanley Whittingham, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Theodore William Richards, William Howard Stein, and Arne Tiselius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Valery Legasov ranks 16. Before him are Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, Ismail Kadare, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Margaret Hamilton, and Ken Loach. After him are Harald zur Hausen, John McCain, F. W. de Klerk, Louis Gossett Jr., Andrei Chikatilo, and Robert Woodrow Wilson. Among people deceased in 1988, Valery Legasov ranks 10. Before him are Richard Feynman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, Bacha Khan, and Ernst Ruska. After him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, André Frédéric Cournand, Divine, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isidor Isaac Rabi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valery Legasov ranks 134 out of 3,761. Before him are Mily Balakirev (1837), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Vasily Chuikov (1900), and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857). After him are Alexei Kosygin (1904), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexei Rykov (1881), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Ivan V of Russia (1666), and Käthe Kollwitz (1867).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Valery Legasov ranks 5. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Otto Wallach (1847), Paul Karrer (1889), and Ilya Prigogine (1917). After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

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