BIOLOGIST

Jacob Bjerknes

1897 - 1975

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Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes ( YAH-kəb BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈjɑ̀ːkɔb ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 2 November 1897 – 7 July 1975) was a meteorologist. He is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north-south heat transport and for which he was also awarded a doctorate from the University of Oslo. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he was the son of the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the pioneers of modern weather forecasting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Bjerknes has received more than 94,192 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jacob Bjerknes is the 657th most popular biologist (up from 693rd in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 682nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 657 out of 1,097. Before him are John Sims, Tommaso Salvadori, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Michael Sela, Jean René Constant Quoy, and John du Pont. After him are George Albert Boulenger, Ferdinand Albin Pax, Mary-Claire King, Walter Sutton, David Starr Jordan, and Eduard Oscar Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 217. Before him are Conrad Nagel, Moe Howard, Johannes Winkler, Jimmie Rodgers, Roman Vishniac, and Max Newman. After him are Choʻlpon, Neil Ritchie, Diego Abad de Santillán, Erik Malmberg, Pixinguinha, and Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer. Among people deceased in 1975, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 170. Before him are Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, William Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Krešimir Baranović, Pete Ham, and Alf Andersen. After him are Maurice Feltin, Paul Verhoeven, Heinz Müller, Nicolas Rossolimo, Antonín Vodička, and Fritz Wotruba.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 653 out of 1,879. Before him are Alexandra Rapaport (1971), Bert Bolin (1925), Sara Lidman (1923), Oscar von Sydow (1873), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), and Henock Abrahamsson (1909). After him are Georg Åberg (1893), Jan Myrdal (1927), Anders Frisk (1963), Janne Andersson (1962), Joel Kinnaman (1979), and Arne Nyberg (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 28. Before him are Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), and Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898). After him are Astrid Cleve (1875), Carl Skottsberg (1880), and Johan Andreas Murray (1740).

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