PHYSICIST

Oskar Klein

1894 - 1977

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Oskar Benjamin Klein (Swedish: [ˈklajn]; 15 September 1894 – 5 February 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist.Oskar Klein is known for his work on string theory, in particular Kaluza–Klein theory, which is partially named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Klein has received more than 148,673 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Klein is the 383rd most popular physicist (down from 359th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.73

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Over the past year Oskar Klein has had the most page views in the with 18,405 views, followed by Chinese (2,981), and Swedish (2,605). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (62.57%), Galician (52.16%), and Italian (51.14%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Oskar Klein ranks 383 out of 851. Before him are John Mauchly, Nathan Rosen, Ralph Asher Alpher, Georgy Flyorov, Duncan Haldane, and Hiroshi Amano. After him are Christopher Polhem, Sameera Moussa, Robert Brout, Louis Poinsot, Wolfgang Ketterle, and George Johnstone Stoney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Oskar Klein ranks 78. Before him are E. E. Cummings, Fritz Freitag, Albert Leo Schlageter, Friedrich Hossbach, Friedrich Ebert Jr., and Erwin Schulhoff. After him are Mikhail Zoshchenko, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, Meher Baba, Józef Beck, Boris Lyatoshinsky, and Gerhard Schmidhuber. Among people deceased in 1977, Oskar Klein ranks 74. Before him are Yevgenia Ginzburg, Hans Martin Sutermeister, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Zózimo, and Edmund Veesenmayer. After him are Eduard Roschmann, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Džemal Bijedić, Miloš Crnjanski, Arsenio Erico, and Hamazasp Babadzhanian.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Oskar Klein ranks 280 out of 1,879. Before him are Bruno Liljefors (1860), Börje Salming (1951), Stig Blomqvist (1946), Helge von Koch (1870), Per Wahlöö (1926), and Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926). After him are Christopher Polhem (1661), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), Mikael Persbrandt (1963), Stig Dagerman (1923), Princess Eugénie of Sweden (1830), and Magnus Stenbock (1664).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Oskar Klein ranks 9. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), and Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874). After him are Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Bert Bolin (1925), Max Tegmark (1967), and Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918).

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