PHYSICIST

Gunnar Nordström

1881 - 1923

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Gunnar Nordström (12 March 1881 – 24 December 1923) was a Finnish theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Nordström has received more than 135,907 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gunnar Nordström is the 572nd most popular physicist (down from 493rd in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Finland (down from 129th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gunnar Nordström ranks 572 out of 851. Before him are August Beer, Carl August von Steinheil, Vladimir Veksler, Nicholas Kurti, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Otto Lehmann. After him are James David Forbes, Antonio Pacinotti, Ludvig Faddeev, Jean Becquerel, Ole Jacob Broch, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Gunnar Nordström ranks 147. Before him are Sergey Merkurov, Edgar Leonard, Zoltán Halmay, Louis Bastien, Heinrich Burger, and Aleksandr Gerasimov. After him are Nikolai Roslavets, Arkady Averchenko, Jérôme Carcopino, Antti Hackzell, Eugen Bolz, and Refik Saydam. Among people deceased in 1923, Gunnar Nordström ranks 78. Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Itō Noe, Walther Kadow, Krišjānis Barons, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, and Michel-Joseph Maunoury. After him are Józef Bilczewski, Georg Marco, Guy de la Chapelle, Ōsugi Sakae, Tommaso Salvadori, and Ernst Hartwig.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Gunnar Nordström ranks 190 out of 751. Before him are Nils Torvalds (1945), JJ Lehto (1966), Christina Abrahamsdotter (1432), Pekka Halonen (1865), Reino Ragnar Lehto (1898), and Aksel Airo (1898). After him are Ahti Karjalainen (1923), Helena Westermarck (1857), Lydia Wideman (1920), Heikki A. Alikoski (1912), Ralf Törngren (1899), and Julius Skutnabb (1889).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Finland

Among physicists born in Finland, Gunnar Nordström ranks 1. After him are Vilho Väisälä (1889).

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