1878 - 1975
Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Alexanderson has received more than 94,535 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ernst Alexanderson is the 256th most popular inventor (down from 253rd in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 438th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Inventor.
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Among inventors, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 256 out of 354. Before him are Aimo Lahti, Walter Hunt, Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, and Pavel Yablochkov. After him are Tivadar Puskás, Samuel Morland, Cyrus McCormick, Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, and James Nasmyth.
1896 - 1970
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 250
1796 - 1859
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 251
1859 - 1942
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 252
1819 - 1888
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 253
1832 - 1921
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 254
1847 - 1894
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 255
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 256
1844 - 1893
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 257
1625 - 1695
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 258
1809 - 1884
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 259
1891 - 1965
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 260
1852 - 1936
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 261
1808 - 1890
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 262
Among people born in 1878, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 116. Before him are Pierre Fatou, Lina Stern, Victor Segalen, Konrad Mägi, Takeo Arishima, and Agner Krarup Erlang. After him are Karl Buresch, Paul Renner, Selim Palmgren, Egon Friedell, Anna Coleman Ladd, and Charles Dvorak. Among people deceased in 1975, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 106. Before him are Michał Sopoćko, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Virginio Rosetta, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jacques Duclos, and Richard Conte. After him are Mark Donohue, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Vladimir Kuts, Annette Kellermann, W. V. D. Hodge, and Louis Van Hege.
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 110
1878 - 1968
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 111
1878 - 1919
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 112
1878 - 1925
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 113
1878 - 1923
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 114
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 115
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 116
1878 - 1936
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 117
1878 - 1956
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 118
1878 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 119
1878 - 1938
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 120
1878 - 1939
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 121
1878 - 1969
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 122
1888 - 1975
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 100
1889 - 1975
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 101
1902 - 1975
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 102
1895 - 1975
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 103
1896 - 1975
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 104
1910 - 1975
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 105
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 106
1937 - 1975
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 107
1893 - 1975
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 108
1927 - 1975
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 109
1887 - 1975
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 110
1903 - 1975
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 111
1889 - 1975
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 112
Among people born in Sweden, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 420 out of 1,612. Before him are Marika Green (1943), Bengt Strömgren (1908), Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Amalia Lindegren (1814), and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883). After him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889), Gösta Ekman (1890), Peter Artedi (1705), Jan Eliasson (1940), Ernst Josephson (1851), and Svante Pääbo (1955).
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 414
1908 - 1987
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 415
1874 - 1960
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 416
1942 - 2021
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 417
1814 - 1891
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 418
1883 - 1954
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 419
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 420
1889 - 1978
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 421
1890 - 1938
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 422
1705 - 1735
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 423
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 424
1851 - 1906
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 425
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 426
Among inventors born in Sweden, Ernst Alexanderson ranks 4. Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880), John Ericsson (1803), and Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846). After him are Victor Hasselblad (1906) and Simone Giertz (1990).
1880 - 1954
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1
1803 - 1889
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 2
1846 - 1926
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 3
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 4
1906 - 1978
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 5
1990 - Present
HPI: 25.68
Rank: 6