1869 - 1937
Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] (listen); 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, engineer, inventor and long-term CEO of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustaf Dalén has received more than 152,286 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Gustaf Dalén is the 127th most popular physicist (down from 111th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 56th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Physicist.
Gustaf Dalén is most famous for inventing the gas-operated fire extinguisher.
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Among physicists, Gustaf Dalén ranks 127 out of 721. Before him are Walther Bothe, Josiah Willard Gibbs, J. Hans D. Jensen, George Paget Thomson, Edward Victor Appleton, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Leo Szilard, Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg, Hans Geiger, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
1891 - 1957
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 121
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 122
1907 - 1973
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 123
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 124
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 125
1898 - 1988
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 126
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 128
1898 - 1964
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 129
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 130
1939 - 2018
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 131
1882 - 1945
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 132
1742 - 1799
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 133
Among people born in 1869, Gustaf Dalén ranks 12. Before him are Neville Chamberlain, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Emma Goldman, Karl Haushofer, and Fritz Pregl. After him are Mary Mallon, Calouste Gulbenkian, Hans Spemann, Maud of Wales, Siegfried Wagner, and Gustav Vigeland. Among people deceased in 1937, Gustaf Dalén ranks 19. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, J. M. Barrie, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gerda Taro, and J. Bruce Ismay. After him are Austen Chamberlain, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Jean Harlow, Gaston Doumergue, and Ramsay MacDonald.
1869 - 1940
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 6
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 7
1869 - 1939
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 8
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 9
1869 - 1946
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 10
1869 - 1930
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 11
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 12
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 13
1869 - 1955
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 14
1869 - 1941
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 15
1869 - 1938
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 16
1869 - 1930
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 17
1869 - 1943
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 18
1850 - 1937
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 13
1893 - 1937
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 14
1860 - 1937
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 15
1884 - 1937
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 16
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 17
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 18
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 19
1863 - 1937
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 20
1911 - 1937
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 21
1886 - 1937
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 22
1911 - 1937
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 23
1863 - 1937
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 24
1866 - 1937
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 25
Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 76 out of 1,296. Before him are Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864), Bibi Andersson (1935), Axel Oxenstierna (1583), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), and Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844). After him are Eyvind Johnson (1900), Marie Taglioni (1804), Olaus Magnus (1490), Jenny Lind (1820), Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), and Keke Rosberg (1948).
1864 - 1931
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 70
1935 - 2019
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 71
1583 - 1654
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 72
1884 - 1971
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 73
1981 - Present
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 74
1844 - 1916
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 75
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 76
1900 - 1976
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 77
1804 - 1884
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 78
1490 - 1557
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 79
1820 - 1887
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 80
1409 - 1470
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 81
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 82
Among physicists born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 3. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström (1814) and Manne Siegbahn (1886). After him are Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), and Bert Bolin (1925).
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 1
1886 - 1978
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 2
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 3
1908 - 1995
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 4
1918 - 2007
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 5
1854 - 1919
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 6
1896 - 1966
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 7
1894 - 1977
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 8
1661 - 1751
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 9
1857 - 1910
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 10
1766 - 1852
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 11
1925 - 2007
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 12