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Allvar Gullstrand

1862 - 1930

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Allvar Gullstrand (5 June 1862 – 28 July 1930) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allvar Gullstrand has received more than 98,053 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Allvar Gullstrand is the 46th most popular physician (up from 55th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Physician.

Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist who is most famous for his invention of the contact lens.

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  • 68.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 46 out of 502. Before him are Ambroise Paré, Marcello Malpighi, Emil Kraepelin, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Franz Mesmer. After him are Christiaan Barnard, Francesco Redi, Karl Brandt, Jean-Martin Charcot, Hilary of Poitiers, and Gerhard Domagk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 10. Before him are David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Hauptmann, O. Henry, and William Henry Bragg. After him are Aristide Briand, Victoria of Baden, Pyotr Stolypin, Niko Pirosmani, Joseph Merrick, and J. Bruce Ismay. Among people deceased in 1930, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 8. Before him are Alfred Wegener, Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Howard Taft, and Zewditu. After him are Cosima Wagner, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Christiaan Eijkman, Victoria of Baden, Fritz Pregl, and D. H. Lawrence.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 57 out of 1,612. Before him are Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Dolph Lundgren (1957), and Manne Siegbahn (1886). After him are Henning Mankell (1948), Björn Borg (1956), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Stellan Skarsgård (1951), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), and Gunnar Myrdal (1898).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Sweden

Among physicians born in Sweden, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 1. After him are Arvid Carlsson (1923), Ulf von Euler (1905), Hans Rosling (1948), Thomas Bartholin (1616), Torsten Wiesel (1924), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), and Anders Tegnell (1956).

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