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BIOLOGIST

Hans Christian Gram

1853 - 1938

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Hans Christian Joachim Gram (13 September 1853 – 14 November 1938) was a Danish bacteriologist noted for his development of the Gram stain, still a standard technique to classify bacteria and make them more visible under a microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Christian Gram has received more than 680,547 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Hans Christian Gram is the 101st most popular biologist (down from 67th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 81st in 2019) and the most popular Danish Biologist.

Hans Christian Anderson is most famous for his fairytales.

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  • 61.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hans Christian Gram ranks 101 out of 841. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Carl Peter Thunberg, Nikolay Pirogov, and Philip Sclater. After him are Martinus Beijerinck, Günter Blobel, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Sylvia Earle, Julius Richard Petri, and Aaron Ciechanover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Hans Christian Gram ranks 22. Before him are Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Alphonse Bertillon, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Oskar Potiorek, and Hussein Kamel of Egypt. After him are Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Emil Jellinek, Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Vladimir Korolenko. Among people deceased in 1938, Hans Christian Gram ranks 35. Before him are Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Lev Shestov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Feodor Chaliapin, Otto Bauer, and Nikolai Trubetzkoy. After him are Ernst vom Rath, Yakov Yurovsky, Suzanne Lenglen, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and Mary Mallon.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Gram ranks 108 out of 893. Before him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Absalon (1128), Jens Christian Skou (1918), Bille August (1948), and Niels Gade (1817). After him are Harald Bohr (1887), Sophia Brahe (1556), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Allan Simonsen (1952), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), and N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Hans Christian Gram ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Johan Lange (1818), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Nathaniel Wallich (1786).

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