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PHYSICIST

Vagn Walfrid Ekman

1874 - 1954

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Vagn Walfrid Ekman (3 May 1874 – 9 March 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he became committed to oceanography while studying physics at the University of Uppsala and, in particular, on hearing Vilhelm Bjerknes lecture on fluid dynamics. During the expedition of the Fram, Fridtjof Nansen had observed that icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vagn Walfrid Ekman has received more than 56,799 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Vagn Walfrid Ekman is the 578th most popular physicist (up from 674th in 2019), the 586th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 793rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vagn Walfrid Ekman ranks 578 out of 717. Before him are Alfred Perot, Emil Warburg, José Celestino Mutis, Victor J. Stenger, Burkhard Heim, and Edith Clarke. After him are Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, Isaak Khalatnikov, and Alexander Markovich Polyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Vagn Walfrid Ekman ranks 143. Before him are Albert Capellani, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Jean Collas, Abraham Brill, and Charles William Miller. After him are Steve Bloomer, Dmitry Gulia, Abbas Sahhat, Frank Elmore Ross, Henry Travers, and Honus Wagner. Among people deceased in 1954, Vagn Walfrid Ekman ranks 92. Before him are Samuel Jones, Zofia Nałkowska, Jacques Mieses, Vilhelm Buhl, Yukio Ozaki, and Ludwik Hirszfeld. After him are Reinhold Schünzel, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Alberto Braglia, Henri Frankfort, John Lennard-Jones, and Sydney Greenstreet.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Vagn Walfrid Ekman ranks 586 out of 1,612. Before him are Jan Myrdal (1927), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Mats Wahl (1945), Claes Johanson (1884), Torsten Hägerstrand (1916), and Carl Johan Thyselius (1811). After him are Ingvar Rydell (1922), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), Henry Eriksson (1920), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), and Freddie Ljungberg (1977).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Vagn Walfrid Ekman ranks 12. Before him are Johannes Rydberg (1854), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), and Bert Bolin (1925). After him are Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Max Tegmark (1967), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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