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Yuri Orlov

1924 - 2020

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Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Orlov is the 520th most popular physicist (down from 482nd in 2019), the 1,152nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,054th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Orlov ranks 520 out of 851. Before her are Yakir Aharonov, Ivan Puluj, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Clyde Cowan, Edoardo Amaldi, and Konstantin Novoselov. After her are Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, David J. Griffiths, Ole Worm, John Leslie, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, and George Volkoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yuri Orlov ranks 224. Before her are Jaime Lusinchi, Janet Frame, Genichi Taguchi, Ferdinando Terruzzi, Charles Coste, and Werner Kohlmeyer. After her are Aman Andom, Viktor Astafyev, Ken Armstrong, Isadore Singer, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Juan Carlos González. Among people deceased in 2020, Yuri Orlov ranks 278. Before her are Fred Willard, Zenon Grocholewski, Frederick Ballantyne, Larry Tesler, Robert Fisk, and Irrfan Khan. After her are Jonathan Sacks, Enrique Irazoqui, Idir, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Bernard Stiegler, and Karin Lindberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 1,152 out of 3,761. Before her are Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Olga Baclanova (1893), Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Natalia Gutman (1942), and Sergei Shtemenko (1907). After her are Matrona Nikonova (1881), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Viktor Astafyev (1924), Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887), Vera Alentova (1942), and Elvira Nabiullina (1963).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Orlov ranks 28. Before her are Emil Wiechert (1861), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), George Zweig (1937), and Konstantin Novoselov (1974). After her are George Volkoff (1914), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Boris Rosing (1869), Lev Artsimovich (1909), and Yakov Frenkel (1894).

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