BIOLOGIST

Harald Sverdrup

1888 - 1957

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Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November 1888 – 21 August 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harald Sverdrup has received more than 10,723 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Harald Sverdrup is the 546th most popular biologist (down from 426th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Norway (down from 178th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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  • 2.65

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Harald Sverdrup ranks 546 out of 1,097. Before him are Oswald Heer, Albrecht Thaer, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Alfred Newton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent. After him are Otto von Münchhausen, Akira Miyawaki, John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, and Augustin Saint-Hilaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Harald Sverdrup ranks 147. Before him are Anna Q. Nilsson, Gazanfar Musabekov, Milán Füst, Toyohiko Kagawa, Chana Orloff, and Jinichi Kusaka. After him are Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Elisabeth Schumann, Vahram Papazian, Ralph Hartley, and Louis J. Mordell. Among people deceased in 1957, Harald Sverdrup ranks 138. Before him are Grace Coolidge, James Whale, Óscar Domínguez, William Cameron Menzies, Oldřich Duras, and Josephine Hull. After him are Kulyash Baiseitova, Marie Vassilieff, Ernest Oppenheimer, Arie de Jong, Walter Jakobsson, and Norma Talmadge.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Harald Sverdrup ranks 237 out of 1,039. Before him are Wenche Myhre (1947), Alf-Inge Håland (1972), Grímur Kamban (801), Kjetil André Aamodt (1971), Alf Prøysen (1914), and Ingeborg of Norway (1301). After him are John Arne Riise (1980), Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634), Cort Adeler (1622), Nina Grieg (1845), Martinus Rørbye (1803), and Oddbjørn Hagen (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Harald Sverdrup ranks 4. Before him are Martin Vahl (1749), Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), and Henrik Steffens (1773). After him are Kristine Bonnevie (1872), Georg Ossian Sars (1837), Peter Ascanius (1723), Michael Sars (1805), Leonhard Stejneger (1851), and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).

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