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Sergey Vavilov
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, Vavilov, S.I., Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich, Vavilov Sergei Ivanovich, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov
Soviet physicist
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sergey Vavilov is referenced by 74 other articles, and connects out to Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Pavel Cherenkov and Moscow.
Vinony files it under 1891 births, 1951 deaths and 20th-century Russian physicists.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov , ( 1891-03-24 ) 24 March 1891, Moscow , Russian Empire
- Died
- 25 January 1951 (1951-01-25) (aged 59), Moscow, Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Moscow State University
- Known for
- Vavilov-Cherenkov effect
- Fields
- Physics , optics
- Doctoral advisor
- Pyotr Lebedev
- Doctoral students
- Pavel Cherenkov , Ilya Frank , Vladimir Veksler
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sergey
- Family name
- Vavilov
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Sibling
- Nikolai Vavilov
- Occupation
- public figure
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Doctoral student
- Valentin Fabrikant
- Field of work
- optics
- Military rank
- praporshchik
- Image
- Вавилов Сергей Иванович.jpg
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- student
- Sergey Vernov
- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov
- date of birth
- 1891-03-24
- date of death
- 1951-01-25
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Сергей Иванович Вавилов
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf]; 24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. His elder brother Nikolai Vavilov was a famous Russian geneticist.
Biography
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