PHYSICIST

Gustaf Dalén

1869 - 1937

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Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] ; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and industrialist who was the 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 204,828 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Gustaf Dalén is the 95th most popular physicist (up from 246th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 143rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Physicist.

Gustaf Dalén is most famous for inventing the gas-operated fire extinguisher.

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  • 68.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gustaf Dalén ranks 95 out of 851. Before him are Carl Zeiss, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Ernst Ruska, Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, and Emil Lenz. After him are Aage Bohr, William Rowan Hamilton, George Gamow, Owen Willans Richardson, Edward Victor Appleton, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Gustaf Dalén ranks 9. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Neville Chamberlain, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. After him are Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, Fritz Pregl, Hans Spemann, Frederick Trump, and Christian Lous Lange. Among people deceased in 1937, Gustaf Dalén ranks 15. Before him are Erich Ludendorff, Amelia Earhart, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and George Gershwin. After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gerda Taro, J. M. Barrie, Austen Chamberlain, J. Bruce Ismay, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 53 out of 1,879. Before him are Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755), Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Carl Larsson (1853), Eric XIV of Sweden (1533), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), and Benny Andersson (1946). After him are Max von Sydow (1929), Stellan Skarsgård (1951), Astrid of Sweden (1905), Anita Ekberg (1931), Björn Ulvaeus (1945), and Gunnar Nordahl (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 2. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886). After him are Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), and Wilhelm Hisinger (1766).

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