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BIOLOGIST

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

1898 - 1957

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Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav ˈǎrːvɪd ˈrɔ̌sːbʏ] 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl-Gustaf Rossby has received more than 56,012 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl-Gustaf Rossby is the 446th most popular biologist (down from 416th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 405th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 446 out of 841. Before him are Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Sewall Wright, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Jean René Constant Quoy, Leopold Fitzinger, and Jan Svatopluk Presl. After him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Pierre Magnol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 139. Before him are Dámaso Alonso, Josep Sunyol, Franz Bäke, Mikhail Koshkin, Erich Bey, and Eduard Pütsep. After him are Lev Knipper, Pyotr Leshchenko, Ira Sprague Bowen, Alfred Sauvy, Rudolph Maté, and Eugen Wüster. Among people deceased in 1957, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 124. Before him are Peter Freuchen, Augusto Genina, Ramon Magsaysay, Wilhelm Nusselt, Harrison Ford, and Elia Abu Madi. After him are Othmar Schoeck, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Elizabeth Hesselblad, William Cameron Menzies, Grace Coolidge, and John Sealy Townsend.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 459 out of 1,612. Before him are Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872), Viktor Rydberg (1828), August Nilsson (1872), Olle Hellbom (1925), and Mai Zetterling (1925). After him are Kristina Wayborn (1950), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (1921), Ulla Jacobsson (1929), Liza Marklund (1962), Vilgot Sjöman (1924), and Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 20. Before him are Daniel Solander (1733), Anders Dahl (1751), Olof Swartz (1760), Peter Artedi (1705), Svante Pääbo (1955), and Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743). After him are Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), Karl Rudolphi (1771), and Charles De Geer (1720).

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