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 700,307 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Hans Christian Gram is the 114th most popular biologist (down from 100th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Denmark and the most popular Danish Biologist.

Hans Christian Anderson is most famous for his fairytales.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hans Christian Gram ranks 114 out of 1,097. Before him are Julian Huxley, Nikolay Pirogov, Georg Forster, Alfred Hershey, John Gurdon, and Aimé Bonpland. After him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Sydney Brenner, and Har Gobind Khorana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Hans Christian Gram ranks 20. Before him are Ferdinand Hodler, Errico Malatesta, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Princess Thyra of Denmark, and Oskar Potiorek. After him are Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alphonse Bertillon, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Emil Jellinek, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Katharina Schratt. Among people deceased in 1938, Hans Christian Gram ranks 34. Before him are Lev Shestov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, Suzanne Lenglen, and Otto Bauer. After him are Feodor Chaliapin, Ernst vom Rath, Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and Andrej Hlinka.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Gram ranks 107 out of 1,032. Before him are N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Harald Bohr (1887), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Eric II of Denmark (1090), and Bille August (1948). After him are Brigitte Nielsen (1963), Sophia Brahe (1556), Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), and Boetius of Dacia (1240).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Hans Christian Gram ranks 1. After him are Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Johannes Schmidt (1877).

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