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Bert Bolin

1925 - 2007

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Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (Swedish: [ˈbæʈː bʊˈliːn]; 15 May 1925 – 30 December 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bert Bolin has received more than 42,325 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bert Bolin is the 608th most popular physicist (down from 550th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 543rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bert Bolin ranks 608 out of 851. Before him are Henry Augustus Rowland, Wilhelm Hisinger, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, Marcel Brillouin, and Burkhard Heim. After him are James Hansen, John D. Barrow, Harry Daghlian, Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, and Aleksandr Stoletov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Bert Bolin ranks 299. Before him are Leslie Laing, Italo De Zan, Alec McCowen, Yury Trifonov, William Wharton, and Burkhard Heim. After him are Michal Vičan, Carlo Di Palma, Amparo Rivelles, David A. Huffman, Peter R. Hunt, and José Parra Martínez. Among people deceased in 2007, Bert Bolin ranks 235. Before him are Helmut Senekowitsch, Klausjürgen Wussow, Milan Jelić, Francisco Umbral, Aloísio Lorscheider, and Frane Matošić. After him are Yang Chuan-kwang, Raymond Kaelbel, Maurice Boitel, Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Stephen Fumio Hamao, and Ove Grahn.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bert Bolin ranks 648 out of 1,879. Before him are Sven Jacobsson (1914), Ture Rangström (1884), Günther (1967), Peter Tägtgren (1970), Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901), and Alexandra Rapaport (1971). After him are Sara Lidman (1923), Oscar von Sydow (1873), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Henock Abrahamsson (1909), Jacob Bjerknes (1897), and Georg Åberg (1893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Bert Bolin ranks 13. Before him are Johannes Rydberg (1854), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), and Wilhelm Hisinger (1766). After him are Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), Bengt Edlén (1906), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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