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unusual facts about Popov



Andrei Alexandrovich Popov

Popov's involvement with warship design and construction led to him being made an honorary associate of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, in London.

ELKA

Its developers – Lyubomir Antonov, Petar Popov and Stefan Angelov, were the first scientists in the field of electronics to win the highest honour in Bulgaria at the time, the Order of Georgi Dimitrov.

Jaber Saeed Salem

Qatar has been known for recruiting sportspeople from other countries, the most notable examples being fellow weightlifter Said Saif Asaad (formerly Angel Popov of Bulgaria) and world-class runner Saif Saaeed Shaheen.

Jason Croot

Jason also plays alongside Tamzin Outhwaite as a Bulgarian Assassin, Ivano Popov, in series 2 of The Fixer, a drama for ITV by Kudos Productions which was directed by the highly acclaimed Sam Miller.

Nikola Tesla Museum

A series of selected letters, placed on both sides of the photograph, witnesses the highest acknowledgements expressed to Tesla by the greatest scientists of his time: Albert Einstein, William Crookes, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Robert A. Millikan, Lee de Forest, Edwin H. Armstrong, Arthur H. Compton, Arthur E. Kennelly, Popov and Pupin.

Nonlinear control

Popov criterion (described in The Lur'e Problem below)

Oleg Popov

In 2006, Popov was invited to perform at the 30th anniversary of the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo; at 75 years of age, he still managed to inspire a standing ovation.

Paul Finkelman

He was an expert witness for the plaintiff in Popov v. Hayashi (S.F. Sup. Ct. CA, 2002), to determine who owned Barry Bonds's 73rd home run ball.

Popov v. Hayashi

Popov v. Hayashi (WL 31833731 Ca. Sup. Ct. 2002) was a California Superior Court case involving scope of ownership between parties and conversion regarding a baseball acquired at a Major League Baseball game.

Radio Day

In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer as a lightning detector.

Popov has generally been recognized in Eastern Europe as an "inventor of radio" (although it may be more due to politics than historical evidence), in contrast to the West's recognition of Guglielmo Marconi as the first to develop a viable system based on radio (Herzian) waves.

Sitka National Historical Park

Bishop Innocent (Father Ivan Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov) of the Russian Orthodox Church, a clergyman, teacher, scientist, and linguist, occupied the residence until 1859.

Supreme Court of Ukraine

The first judges to the court were elected on January 15, 1918 among which were M. Pukhtynsky, P. Achkasov, O. Butovsky, F. Popov, M. Radchenko, O. Khrutsky, S. Shelukhin, and H. Shyianov and later were joined by P. Yatsenko, M. Vasylenko, K. Tovkach, A. Margolin, M. Cherniavsky, B. Kistiakivsky, I. Kistiakivsky.

Velizar Popov

In June 2010 Velizar Popov attracted in PFC Cherno more one of Brazilian superstar Mário Jardel, who was the most famous name ever having played in the Bulgarian league.


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