CHEMIST

Sune Bergström

1916 - 2004

Photo of Sune Bergström

Icon of person Sune Bergström

Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sune Bergström has received more than 160,574 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Sune Bergström is the 142nd most popular chemist (up from 146th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 126th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Sune Bergström is most famous for his discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sune Bergström ranks 142 out of 602. Before him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Joachim Frank, Kurt Wüthrich, Willard Libby, and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. After him are John Newlands, Christian B. Anfinsen, James Dewar, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Jaroslav Heyrovský, and Arthur Kornberg.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Sune Bergström ranks 35. Before him are Frederick Chapman Robbins, Natalia Ginzburg, Dương Văn Minh, Abdul Rahman Arif, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Paul Keres. After him are Christian B. Anfinsen, Peter Weiss, Bernard Lewis, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Jean Dausset, and Marcel Cerdan. Among people deceased in 2004, Sune Bergström ranks 30. Before him are Renata Tebaldi, Stieg Larsson, Laura Branigan, Leônidas, Carlos Kleiber, and Ingrid Thulin. After him are Estée Lauder, Julius Axelrod, Thomas Klestil, Jerry Goldsmith, Edward B. Lewis, and Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Others Born in 1916

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2004

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 120 out of 1,879. Before him are Nathan Söderblom (1866), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Ingrid Thulin (1926), Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912), Lasse Hallström (1946), and Gunnar Gren (1920). After him are Lennart Johansson (1929), Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (1001), Hjalmar Branting (1860), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Ingemar Stenmark (1956), and Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg (1584).

Others born in Sweden

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Sune Bergström ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Nobel (1833), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Arne Tiselius (1902), Theodor Svedberg (1884), and Per Teodor Cleve (1840). After him are Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), and Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797).

Swedish born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous