The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 717 Physicists, 3 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 30th most number of Physicists behind Azerbaijan and Romania.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ivar Giaever (1929 - )
With an HPI of 59.63, Ivar Giaever is the most famous Norwegian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 59 different languages on wikipedia.
Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver, IPA: [ˈìːvɑr ˈjèːvər]; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors". In 1975, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in the discovery and elaboration of electron tunneling into superconductors. Giaever is a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.
2. Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862 - 1951)
With an HPI of 51.50, Vilhelm Bjerknes is the 2nd most famous Norwegian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages.
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ( BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numerical weather prediction and climate modeling, and he developed the so-called Bergen School of Meteorology, which was successful in advancing weather prediction and meteorology in the early 20th century.
3. Ole Jacob Broch (1818 - 1889)
With an HPI of 46.68, Ole Jacob Broch is the 3rd most famous Norwegian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ole Jacob Broch (14 January 1818 – 5 February 1889) was a Norwegian mathematician, physicist, economist and government minister.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as physicists born between 1818 and 1929. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicists include Ivar Giaever. The most famous deceased physicists include Vilhelm Bjerknes and Ole Jacob Broch. As of April 2022, 1 new physicists have been added to Pantheon including Ole Jacob Broch.
