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Knut Ångström

1857 - 1910

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Knut Johan Ångström (12 January 1857 – 4 March 1910) was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and studied in Uppsala from 1877 to 1884, when he received his licentiat-degree, before going for a short time to the University of Strassburg (Strasbourg) to study with August Kundt. Coming back to Uppsala, he completed his doctoral degree and was appointed lecturer in physics at the new university college in Stockholm (now Stockholm University) in 1885. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knut Ångström has received more than 34,902 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Knut Ångström is the 537th most popular physicist (down from 536th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 505th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Knut Ångström ranks 537 out of 851. Before him are Edward Condon, Bryce DeWitt, Eric Allin Cornell, Vladimir Steklov, Macedonio Melloni, and Leonid Mandelstam. After him are Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, John Sealy Townsend, Alfred Perot, and Artem Alikhanian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Knut Ångström ranks 88. Before him are Shibli Nomani, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Alfred Bruneau, Gabriela Zapolska, Gunnar Heiberg, and Louis Dollo. After him are Eva Bonnier, Theodor Curtius, George Gissing, Albert Ballin, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, and Anita Augspurg. Among people deceased in 1910, Knut Ångström ranks 67. Before him are Luo Yixiu, Kálmán Mikszáth, Tarabai Shinde, George Turner, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Gustav Adolf von Götzen. After him are Giovanni Passannante, Kurd Lasswitz, Julien Dupré, Laza Kostić, Andrea Costa, and Fredrik von Otter.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 507 out of 1,879. Before him are Viktor Rydberg (1828), Charles De Geer (1720), Tommy Körberg (1948), Kent Andersson (1942), Erik Lundqvist (1908), and John Ljunggren (1919). After him are Sigge Parling (1930), Eva Bonnier (1857), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Liza Marklund (1962), Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750), and Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 11. Before him are Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Oskar Klein (1894), and Christopher Polhem (1661). After him are Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Bert Bolin (1925), Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), Bengt Edlén (1906), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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