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Alva Myrdal

1902 - 1986

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Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish: [ˈǎlːva ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alva Myrdal has received more than 263,942 page views. Her biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Alva Myrdal is the 18th most popular diplomat (down from 17th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 81st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Diplomat.

Alva Myrdal is most famous for being the co-author of the book "Women's Two Roles."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alva Myrdal ranks 18 out of 90. Before her are Lucien Bonaparte, Madeleine Albright, Folke Bernadotte, John R. Bolton, Chaim Herzog, and Mohamed ElBaradei. After her are Antony Blinken, Hasekura Tsunenaga, George F. Kennan, Chiune Sugihara, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alva Myrdal ranks 31. Before her are Arne Jacobsen, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Fritz Strassmann, and André Michel Lwoff. After her are Juscelino Kubitschek, Marcel Breuer, Harold Lasswell, Émile Benveniste, Alexander Luria, and Theodore Schultz. Among people deceased in 1986, Alva Myrdal ranks 27. Before her are Cary Grant, Albert Szent-Györgyi, James Rainwater, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Erich Koch, and Samora Machel. After her are Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanley Rous, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, Chiune Sugihara, and Benny Goodman.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 104 out of 1,879. Before her are Olaus Magnus (1490), Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943), Anund Jacob (1008), Bibi Andersson (1935), Haakon VI of Norway (1340), and Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938). After her are Bertil Ohlin (1899), Lennart Torstensson (1603), Nils Liedholm (1922), Svante Pääbo (1955), Rudolf Kjellén (1864), and Ulf von Euler (1905).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Alva Myrdal ranks 4. Before her are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), and Folke Bernadotte (1895). After her are Hans Blix (1928).

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