# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sergei-rytov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:12:51.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sergei-rytov"
name: "Sergei Rytov"
slug: "sergei-rytov"
description: "Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov was a Soviet physicist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Rytov contributed to the fields of statistical radiophysics, fluctuational electrodynamics and effective medium theory. The Rytov number for laser propagation in the atmosphere and the Rytov approximation for wave propagation in inhomogeneous media bear his name."
tagline: "Russian physicist (1908–1996)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1908-06-20"
deathDate: "1996-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump