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Ole Jacob Broch

1818 - 1889

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Ole Jacob Broch (14 January 1818 – 5 February 1889) was a Norwegian mathematician, physicist, economist and government minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ole Jacob Broch has received more than 20,003 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ole Jacob Broch is the 625th most popular physicist, the 284th most popular biography from Norway and the 3rd most popular Norwegian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ole Jacob Broch ranks 625 out of 717Before him are Julius Wess, William Higinbotham, John Polkinghorne, Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, and Charles Fabry. After him are John Hopkinson, Balthasar van der Pol, Nicholas Metropolis, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Frederick Seitz, and Franz Josef Gerstner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Ole Jacob Broch ranks 77Before him are Alexander Dreyschock, Johan Lange, Lucy Stone, Henry Litolff, Mary Elizabeth Barber, and Heinrich Zollinger. After him are Élie-Abel Carrière, José María Castro Madriz, Dimitrie Brătianu, Constantin von Wurzbach, Benjamin Butler, and František Ladislav Rieger. Among people deceased in 1889, Ole Jacob Broch ranks 72Before him are Juan Montalvo, Domingo Santa María, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski. After him are Miles Joseph Berkeley, August Ahlqvist, Lucy Webb Hayes, Charles Mackay, Francisco Antonino Vidal, and Daniel Harvey Hill.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ole Jacob Broch ranks 284 out of 927Before him are Sam Eyde (1866), Roy Jacobsen (1954), Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771), John Arne Riise (1980), Kitty Lange Kielland (1843), and Gunnar Sønsteby (1918). After him are Ståle Solbakken (1968), Otto Sinding (1842), Gjermund Eggen (1941), Olav Aukrust (1883), Jan Kjærstad (1953), and Sverre Stenersen (1926).

Among PHYSICISTS In Norway

Among physicists born in Norway, Ole Jacob Broch ranks 3Before him are Ivar Giaever (1929) and Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862).