PHYSICIST

Vladimir Chelomey

1914 - 1984

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Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey or Chelomei (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Челоме́й, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Микола́йович Челоме́й; 30 June 1914 – 8 December 1984) was a Soviet engineer and designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union. He invented the first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for developing the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and the ICBM program of the Soviet Union such as the UR-100, UR-200, UR-500 and UR-700. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Chelomey is the 441st most popular physicist (down from 412th in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from Poland (down from 498th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Chelomey ranks 441 out of 851. Before him are William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Anatoli Bugorski, and Robert J. Van de Graaff. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Howard P. Robertson, Yuval Ne'eman, John Dollond, Douglas Hofstadter, and Frank Oppenheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Vladimir Chelomey ranks 135. Before him are Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Sisowath Sirik Matak, Unity Mitford, Edward Schillebeeckx, E. G. Marshall, and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.. After him are Richard Basehart, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Yahya Khan, Sarla Thakral, and Felice Borel. Among people deceased in 1984, Vladimir Chelomey ranks 88. Before him are Ken Carpenter, Jean Prouvé, Christa Schroeder, Aurelio Peccei, Richard Brautigan, and William Powell. After him are Richard Basehart, Lee Krasner, Andy Kaufman, Karl-August Fagerholm, Edith Massey, and Roland Penrose.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Vladimir Chelomey ranks 526 out of 1,694. Before him are Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755), Stanisław Poniatowski (1676), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), and Richard Thomalla (1903). After him are Henryk Dembiński (1791), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Beata Szydło (1963), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), and Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Vladimir Chelomey ranks 13. Before him are Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848). After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Max Abraham (1875), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Hertha Sponer (1895).

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