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Oskar Backlund

1846 - 1916

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Johan Oskar Backlund (28 April 1846 – 29 August 1916) was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". In Russia, where he spent his entire career, he is known as Oskar Andreevich Baklund (Оскар Андреевич Баклунд). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Backlund has received more than 17,257 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Oskar Backlund is the 216th most popular astronomer (down from 186th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 324th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Oskar Backlund ranks 216 out of 531. Before him are Timocharis, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Sergey Belyavsky, Martin Schwarzschild, and Alexis Bouvard. After him are Svetlana Gerasimenko, Alfred Fowler, César-François Cassini de Thury, Heber Doust Curtis, James Ferguson, and Antonín Mrkos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Oskar Backlund ranks 46. Before him are Julius Maggi, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, and Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti. After him are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Carlo Cafiero, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Ottomar Anschütz, F. H. Bradley, and Luigi Denza. Among people deceased in 1916, Oskar Backlund ranks 78. Before him are George Huntington, Ota Benga, Patrick Pearse, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Higaonna Kanryō, and Artúr Görgei. After him are Ferdinand Fellner, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Hugo von Pohl, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and Cai E.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Oskar Backlund ranks 349 out of 1,612. Before him are Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549), Alicia Vikander (1988), Lisbeth Palme (1931), and Jonas Jonasson (1961). After him are Kristina Söderbaum (1912), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Anders Sparrman (1748), Greta Thunberg (2003), Lena Endre (1955), and Ola Ullsten (1931).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Sweden

Among astronomers born in Sweden, Oskar Backlund ranks 4. Before him are Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), and Bertil Lindblad (1895). After him are Bengt Strömgren (1908), Carl Charlier (1862), and Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944).

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