PHYSICIST

Anders Jonas Ångström

1814 - 1874

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Anders Jonas Ångström (Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈjûːnas ˈɔ̂ŋːstrœm]; 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Ångström is also well known for his studies of astrophysics, heat transfer, terrestrial magnetism, and the aurora borealis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Jonas Ångström has received more than 207,691 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Anders Jonas Ångström is the 113th most popular physicist, the 64th most popular biography from Sweden and the 3rd most popular Swedish Physicist.

Anders Ångström is most famous for his discovery of the Ångström unit, a measurement of length.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 113 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Kastler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Heinrich Rohrer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Peter Debye. After him are Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, Arnold Sommerfeld, Paul Langevin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and K. Alex Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, and Adolphe Sax. After him are Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, and August Grisebach. Among people deceased in 1874, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 1. After him are Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, David Strauss, Johann Philipp Reis, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 64 out of 1,879. Before him are Björn Ulvaeus (1945), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Folke Bernadotte (1895), Gustav III of Sweden (1746), Björn Borg (1956), and Henning Mankell (1948). After him are Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Arne Tiselius (1902), Hilma af Klint (1862), Dolph Lundgren (1957), and Theodor Svedberg (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 3. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886), and Gustaf Dalén (1869). After him are Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), and Wilhelm Hisinger (1766).

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