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Vladimir Fock

1898 - 1974

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok; Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Fock is the 384th most popular physicist (up from 437th in 2019), the 610th most popular biography from Russia (up from 872nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Fock ranks 384 out of 851. Before him are John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Federico Faggin, Friedrich Paschen, August Kundt, and Abram Ioffe. After him are Edward Witten, George Johnstone Stoney, Qian Xuesen, Donna Strickland, Christopher Polhem, and Manfred von Ardenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vladimir Fock ranks 83. Before him are Luigi Fagioli, István Dobi, Matvei Zakharov, August Hirt, Eben Dönges, and Gulzarilal Nanda. After him are Leo McCarey, Emil Artin, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Salvatore Ferragamo, Fyodor Kuznetsov, and Leon Štukelj. Among people deceased in 1974, Vladimir Fock ranks 60. Before him are Marcel Achard, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Junio Valerio Borghese, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Sexton, and Pietro Germi. After him are Candy Darling, Samuel Goldwyn, James J. Braddock, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Josef Krips, and Lajos Zilahy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 610 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Igor Netto (1930), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Alexander Godunov (1949), George Sanders (1906), and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888). After him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Alexander Schmorell (1917), and Valerian Kuybyshev (1888).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Fock ranks 18. Before him are Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), and Vladimir Shukhov (1853). After him are Georgy Flyorov (1913), Boris Podolsky (1896), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), and Andrei Linde (1948).

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