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Ole Worm

1588 - 1654

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Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ole Worm has received more than 236,828 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ole Worm is the 469th most popular physicist (down from 416th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 247th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Physicist.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ole Worm ranks 469 out of 717. Before him are Joseph Larmor, John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, John Canton, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Katharine Burr Blodgett. After him are Raoul Pictet, Yuval Ne'eman, Takaaki Kajita, Claude Pouillet, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Ole Worm ranks 14. Before him are Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Isaac Beeckman, Pierre Séguier, and Margherita Aldobrandini. After him are Johann von Aldringen, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Jan Janssonius, and John Winthrop. Among people deceased in 1654, Ole Worm ranks 14. Before him are Peter Claver, Samuel Scheidt, İslâm III Giray, Jacques Lemercier, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac. After him are Matei Basarab and John Selden.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ole Worm ranks 293 out of 893. Before him are Jens Baggesen (1764), Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801), H. C. Hansen (1906), Palle Huld (1912), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), and Martha of Denmark (1277). After him are Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Lucile Grahn (1819), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway (1244), Carl Lange (1834), Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947), and Agner Krarup Erlang (1878).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Ole Worm ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Niels Bohr (1885), Aage Bohr (1922), and Martin Knudsen (1871). After him are Lene Hau (1959) and Ludvig Lorenz (1829).

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