PHYSICIST

Ole Worm

1588 - 1654

Photo of Ole Worm

Icon of person Ole Worm

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 246,059 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ole Worm is the 477th most popular physicist (down from 469th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 291st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ole Worm ranks 477 out of 851. Before him are Jacques Babinet, Pyotr Lebedev, Clarence Zener, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, and Max Abraham. After him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, and Marian Smoluchowski.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Ole Worm ranks 13. Before him are Isaac Beeckman, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Jan Janssonius, and Pierre Séguier. After him are Johann Heinrich Alsted, Margherita Aldobrandini, Claudius Salmasius, Johann von Aldringen, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen. Among people deceased in 1654, Ole Worm ranks 14. Before him are Peter Claver, İslâm III Giray, Samuel Scheidt, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Jacques Lemercier, and Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. After him are Matei Basarab, Athanasius III of Constantinople, John Selden, and Nicholas Culpeper.

Others Born in 1588

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1654

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ole Worm ranks 278 out of 1,032. Before him are Kjeld Abell (1901), Margrethe Vestager (1968), Ernst Reuter (1889), Frank Arnesen (1956), Rued Langgaard (1893), and Christian Frederik Hansen (1756). After him are Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609), Ebbe Schwartz (1901), Laurits Tuxen (1853), Estrid Svendsdatter (990), H. C. Hansen (1906), and Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1721).

Others born in Denmark

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

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 Ludvig Lorenz (1829). After him are Martin Knudsen (1871), Henrik Svensmark (1958), and Lene Hau (1959).

Danish born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous