List of Famous people with last name Chirikov

Aleksei Chirikov

First Name Aleksei

Born on December 24, 1703

Died on June 4, 1748 (aged 44)

Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov was a Russian navigator and captain who along with Bering was the first Russian to reach North-West coast of North America. He discovered and charted some of the Aleutian Islands while he was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Great Northern Expedition.

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Boris Chirikov

First Name Boris

Last Name Chirikov

Born on June 6, 1928

Died on February 12, 2008 (aged 79)

Born in Russia, Oryol Oblast

Boris Valerianovich Chirikov was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was the founder of the physical theory of Hamiltonian chaos and made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum chaos. In 1959, he invented the Chirikov criterion which gives an analytical estimate for the overlap of resonances and provides the conditions for transition from integrability to global chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

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