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Oskar Klein

1894 - 1977

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Oskar Benjamin Klein (Swedish: [ˈklajn]; 15 September 1894 – 5 February 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Klein has received more than 132,993 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Klein is the 358th most popular physicist (up from 374th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 298th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Oskar Klein ranks 358 out of 717. Before him are William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, Robert B. Laughlin, and Abram Ioffe. After him are Paul Drude, Louis Slotin, Anna Mani, Nick Holonyak, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and George Uhlenbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Oskar Klein ranks 80. Before him are Erwin Schulhoff, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, José Carlos Mariátegui, Wäinö Aaltonen, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, and Hans Kramers. After him are René Fonck, Trygve Gulbranssen, Meher Baba, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Gerhard Schmidhuber. Among people deceased in 1977, Oskar Klein ranks 69. Before him are Hans Martin Sutermeister, Tom Pryce, Bruno Streckenbach, Kamal Jumblatt, Edmond Hamilton, and Marien Ngouabi. After him are Jacques Tourneur, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Edmund Veesenmayer, Shogo Kamo, and Džemal Bijedić.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Oskar Klein ranks 273 out of 1,612. Before him are Hans Blix (1928), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Björn Waldegård (1943), Erik Acharius (1757), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), and Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926). After him are Eva Ekeblad (1724), Karin Boye (1900), Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806), Jo Bonnier (1930), Stig Blomqvist (1946), and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Oskar Klein ranks 8. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), and Gustaf Dalén (1869). After him are Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), Bert Bolin (1925), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), and Max Tegmark (1967).

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