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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 128,376 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Nordström is the 493rd most popular physicist (up from 504th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Finland (up from 134th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gunnar Nordström ranks 493 out of 717. Before him are Richard C. Tolman, Dennis W. Sciama, Pierre Weiss, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Heinz von Foerster. After him are Vikram Sarabhai, Michael Green, George Zweig, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Michael Berry, and Giovanni Battista Beccaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Gunnar Nordström ranks 110. Before him are Richard C. Tolman, Yakov Protazanov, Ernest Bevin, Pablo Gargallo, Ber Borochov, and Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Marcello Piacentini, August Hlond, Max Weber, Móric Esterházy, Ernst Fast, and Harry Hillman. Among people deceased in 1923, Gunnar Nordström ranks 67. Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Alfred Edwards, Kadambini Ganguly, Krišjānis Barons, and Walther Kadow. After him are Kuroki Tamemoto, Itō Noe, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, George Hendrik Breitner, and Princess Marie of Battenberg.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Gunnar Nordström ranks 129 out of 642. Before him are Valtteri Bottas (1989), Erik Heinrichs (1890), Paavo Talvela (1897), Timo Salonen (1951), Selim Palmgren (1878), and Gunnar Höckert (1910). After him are Kalevi Sorsa (1930), Liisi Oterma (1915), Mauno Pekkala (1890), Heikki A. Alikoski (1912), Ville Valo (1976), and Marcus Grönholm (1968).

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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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