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Bengt Strömgren

1908 - 1987

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Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bengt Strömgren has received more than 29,564 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Bengt Strömgren is the 251st most popular astronomer (up from 260th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 414th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Bengt Strömgren ranks 251 out of 644. Before him are Wilhelm von Biela, César-François Cassini de Thury, Oenopides, Vesto Slipher, William Wallace Campbell, and Svetlana Gerasimenko. After him are Charles Wolf, Laurent Cassegrain, Klim Churyumov, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Sandra Faber, and George Ellery Hale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bengt Strömgren ranks 156. Before him are Karel Ančerl, Sœur Emmanuelle, Paula Mollenhauer, John Mills, Elek Schwartz, and Juan Botasso. After him are Jack Williamson, Olga Benário Prestes, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Gioacchino Guaragna, Titus Burckhardt, and Luis Regueiro. Among people deceased in 1987, Bengt Strömgren ranks 106. Before him are Bertrand de Jouvenel, Clarence Brown, Edgar P. Jacobs, Hermann Lang, Donn F. Eisele, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. After him are Stanisław Szukalski, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Gustav Fröhlich, Adile Naşit, Norman McLaren, and Cornelis Vreeswijk.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bengt Strömgren ranks 397 out of 1,879. Before him are Knut Nordahl (1920), Laurentius Petri (1499), Mai Zetterling (1925), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), and Tore Keller (1905). After him are Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Malena Ernman (1970), Peter Haber (1952), Sigrid of Sweden (1566), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), and Dead (1969).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Sweden

Among astronomers born in Sweden, Bengt Strömgren ranks 5. Before him are Anders Celsius (1701), Tycho Brahe (1546), Oskar Backlund (1846), and Bertil Lindblad (1895). After him are Carl Charlier (1862), Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839), and Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944).

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