1869 - 1937
Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] ; 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 189,974 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustaf Dalén is the 246th most popular physicist (down from 127th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 76th in 2019) and the 7th 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 246 out of 717. Before him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Johannes Rydberg, David Bohm, Klaus Hasselmann, Julian Schwinger, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. After him are Georg Bednorz, John B. Goodenough, David J. Wineland, Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, and Serge Haroche.
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 240
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 241
1992 - 1992
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 242
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 243
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 244
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 245
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 246
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 247
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 248
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 249
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 250
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 251
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 252
Among people born in 1869, Gustaf Dalén ranks 27. Before him are Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Henri Désiré Landru, Emilio Aguinaldo, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Felix Salten, and Karl Seitz. After him are Albert Roussel, Gustav Vigeland, Mary Mallon, Martin Andersen Nexø, Pyotr Krasnov, and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1937, Gustaf Dalén ranks 33. Before him are Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Emilio Mola, and Jagadish Chandra Bose. After him are Albert Roussel, Wallace Carothers, Edith Wharton, Pavel Florensky, Louis Vierne, and Georgy Pyatakov.
1869 - 1955
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 21
1869 - 1922
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 22
1869 - 1964
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 23
1869 - 1957
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 24
1869 - 1945
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 25
1869 - 1950
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 26
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 27
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 28
1869 - 1943
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 29
1869 - 1938
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 30
1869 - 1954
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 31
1869 - 1947
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 32
1869 - 1870
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 33
1868 - 1937
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 27
1856 - 1937
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 28
1844 - 1937
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 29
1868 - 1937
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 30
1887 - 1937
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 31
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 32
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 33
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 34
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 35
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 36
1882 - 1937
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 37
1870 - 1937
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 38
1890 - 1937
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 39
Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 144 out of 1,612. Before him are Magnus III of Sweden (1240), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), Emund the Old (1030), Nathan Söderblom (1866), Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (1001), and Zarah Leander (1907). After him are Gunnar Gren (1920), Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943), Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Eric XI of Sweden (1216), and Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938).
1240 - 1290
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 138
1331 - 1381
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 139
1030 - 1060
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 140
1866 - 1931
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 141
1001 - 1050
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 142
1907 - 1981
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 143
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 144
1920 - 1991
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 145
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 146
1846 - 1927
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 147
1130 - 1161
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 148
1216 - 1250
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 149
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 150
Among physicists born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 7. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), and Johannes Rydberg (1854). After him are Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), Bert Bolin (1925), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), and Wilhelm Hisinger (1766).
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 1
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 2
1908 - 1995
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 3
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 4
1896 - 1966
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 5
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 6
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 7
1894 - 1977
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 8
1661 - 1751
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 9
1857 - 1910
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 10
1925 - 2007
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 11
1874 - 1954
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 12
1766 - 1852
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 13