By Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh is named after him and his brother Nikolai Vavilov
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Sergey Vavilov
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov 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.
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science · Soviet physicist (1891–1951) · physicist · university teacher · public figure · also Sergey Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, Vavilov, S.I., Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich, Vavilov Sergei Ivanovich, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov
Born 12 March 1891 · Died 25 January 1951 · Q324968
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1952).
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1951).
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Died 1951-01-25.
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Chaired an expanded meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences
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1947· 1 entry
Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1946).
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1945· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Won Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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Career landmark: president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1945–1951).
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1943· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1943).
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1943).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939).
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1934· 2 entries
Co-discovered the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, a discovery for which Pavel Cherenkov was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
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Career landmark: director (1934–1951).
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1914· 1 entry
Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1909–1914).
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-03-12.
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