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PHYSICIST

Gustaf Dalén

1869 - 1937

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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

Among physicists, Gustaf Dalén ranks 246 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Gustaf Dalén ranks 27Before 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 33Before 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.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 144 out of 1,612Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 7Before 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).