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Vladimir Shukhov

1853 - 1939

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method. Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Shukhov is the 372nd most popular physicist, the 578th most popular biography from Russia (up from 638th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 372 out of 851. Before him are Louis Slotin, William Sturgeon, George F. R. Ellis, Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, and Jurij Vega. After him are Franz Ernst Neumann, Galileo Ferraris, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, and John Theophilus Desaguliers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 33. Before him are André Michelin, Francesco Filippini, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Flinders Petrie, Antonio Salandra, and Vladimir Korolenko. After him are Pierre Paul Émile Roux, André Messager, Roberto Ferruzzi, Sophia Perovskaya, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. Among people deceased in 1939, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 41. Before him are Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, Gerardo Machado, Franz Schmidt, Stanislav Kosior, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. After him are Hans Langsdorff, Havelock Ellis, Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, Wu Peifu, Armand Călinescu, and Norman Bethune.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 578 out of 3,761. Before him are Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874), Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Nikolai Golitsyn (1850), and Uliana of Tver (1325). After him are Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Mikhail Tomsky (1880), Georges Gurvitch (1894), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), and Alexey Pajitnov (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov ranks 17. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), and Alexey Ekimov (1945). After him are Vladimir Fock (1898), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Boris Podolsky (1896), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Emil Wiechert (1861), and Pyotr Lebedev (1866).

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