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PHYSICIST

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 32,261 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Knut Ångström is the 536th most popular physicist (down from 511th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Knut Ångström ranks 536 out of 717. Before him are Woldemar Voigt, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Augusto Righi, Antonio Pacinotti, James David Forbes, and Brian Greene. After him are Alfred Kleiner, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Wallace Clement Sabine, William Edward Ayrton, and Albert Betz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Knut Ångström ranks 91. Before him are Uroš Predić, Filippo Turati, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Ayub Khan, Wilhelm Kienzl, and E. A. Wallis Budge. After him are Georges Leygues, Alice Pike Barney, George Gissing, Juan Luna, Helena Westermarck, and Anita Augspurg. Among people deceased in 1910, Knut Ångström ranks 64. Before him are Edouard Van Beneden, William Graham Sumner, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Laza Kostić, Giovanni Passannante, and Kurd Lasswitz. After him are Gustave Moynier, Emmanuel Frémiet, Fredrik von Otter, George Turner, Andrea Costa, and Pierre Nord Alexis.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 506 out of 1,612. Before him are Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Orvar Bergmark (1930), Bengt Ekerot (1920), Lars-Erik Larsson (1908), and Arne Borg (1901). After him are Katarina Taikon (1932), Rudolf Svensson (1899), Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland (1984), August Malmström (1829), Sonja Edström (1930), and Johan David Åkerblad (1763).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 10. Before him are Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Oskar Klein (1894), and Christopher Polhem (1661). After him are Bert Bolin (1925), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Max Tegmark (1967), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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