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Yakov Frenkel

1894 - 1952

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Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель; 10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed-matter physics. He is also known as Jacob Frenkel, frequently using the name J. Frenkel in publications in English. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Frenkel is the 580th most popular physicist (up from 585th in 2019), the 1,435th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,503rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yakov Frenkel ranks 580 out of 851. Before him are Marcel Brillouin, Eric Allin Cornell, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, and Mark Oliphant. After him are Yulii Khariton, Antonio Pacinotti, Sergey Kapitsa, Georg Adolf Erman, Otto Lehmann, and Sumio Iijima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Yakov Frenkel ranks 167. Before him are Saken Seifullin, Edwin Linkomies, Heinz Hopf, Marietta Blau, Magda Julin, and Robert Menzies. After him are Alfred Romer, Francis Hunter, Olive Thomas, Jack Benny, James Thurber, and Wilhelm Hasse. Among people deceased in 1952, Yakov Frenkel ranks 112. Before him are Artur Kapp, Jonas Staugaitis, Sergey Merkurov, John Garfield, Roger Vitrac, and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Edward S. Curtis, Albert Bassermann, Adolf Busch, Elisabeth Schumann, Carl Tanzler, and Carlo Agostini.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Frenkel ranks 1,435 out of 3,761. Before him are Serhii Plokhy (1957), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Andrey Makarevich (1953), and Innokenty Annensky (1855). After him are Viktor Zolotov (1954), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Eeva Kilpi (1928), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Carl Enckell (1876), and Mikhail Katkov (1818).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yakov Frenkel ranks 34. Before him are Yuri Orlov (1924), George Volkoff (1914), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Boris Rosing (1869), and Lev Artsimovich (1909). After him are Yulii Khariton (1904), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Max Wien (1866), Barys Kit (1910), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), and Orest Khvolson (1852).

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