1833 - 1896
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( noh-BEL, Swedish: [ˈǎlfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Nobel has received more than 6,490,351 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 141 in 2019). Alfred Nobel is the 2nd most popular chemist, the most popular biography from Sweden (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Chemist.
Alfred Nobel is most famous for inventing dynamite.
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Among chemists, Alfred Nobel ranks 2 out of 509. Before him are Louis Pasteur. After him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Robert Boyle, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Svante Arrhenius, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and Fritz Haber.
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 1
1833 - 1896
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 2
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 3
1743 - 1794
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 4
1766 - 1844
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 5
1627 - 1691
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 6
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 7
1776 - 1856
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 8
1859 - 1927
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 9
721 - 815
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 10
1779 - 1848
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 11
1868 - 1934
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1833, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Johannes Brahms, Alexander Borodin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Benjamin Harrison, Élie Ducommun, Alfred von Schlieffen, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Félicien Rops, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, and Léon Bonnat. Among people deceased in 1896, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Paul Verlaine, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, William Morris, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ivar Aasen, and John Everett Millais.
1833 - 1896
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 1
1833 - 1897
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 2
1833 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 3
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 4
1833 - 1896
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 5
1833 - 1901
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 6
1833 - 1906
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 7
1833 - 1913
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 8
1833 - 1905
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 9
1833 - 1898
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 10
1833 - 1918
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 11
1833 - 1922
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 12
1833 - 1896
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 1
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 2
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 3
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 4
1833 - 1896
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 5
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 6
1834 - 1896
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 7
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 8
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 9
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 10
1813 - 1896
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 11
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 12
Among people born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1 out of 1,612. After him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), Ingmar Bergman (1918), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Olof Palme (1927), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), and Ingvar Kamprad (1926).
1833 - 1896
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 1
1707 - 1778
HPI: 87.29
Rank: 2
1546 - 1601
HPI: 79.61
Rank: 3
1701 - 1744
HPI: 79.08
Rank: 4
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 5
1594 - 1632
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 6
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 7
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 8
1927 - 1986
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 9
1682 - 1718
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 10
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 11
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 12
Among chemists born in Sweden, Alfred Nobel ranks 1. After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Arne Tiselius (1902), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Sune Bergström (1916), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Torbern Bergman (1735).
1833 - 1896
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 1
1859 - 1927
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 2
1779 - 1848
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 3
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 4
1902 - 1971
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 6
1916 - 2004
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 7
1792 - 1841
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 8
1745 - 1818
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 9
1722 - 1765
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 10
1797 - 1858
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 11
1735 - 1784
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 12