INVENTOR

Victor Hasselblad

1906 - 1978

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Victor Hasselblad (8 March 1906 – 5 August 1978) was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format camera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Hasselblad has received more than 81,176 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Hasselblad is the 319th most popular inventor (down from 316th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 677th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swedish Inventor.

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  • 81k

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  • 48.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Victor Hasselblad ranks 319 out of 426. Before him are Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, Heinrich Gerber, and Thomas Wedgwood. After him are Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, Patricia Bath, Jay Miner, Harry Ferguson, and John Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Victor Hasselblad ranks 272. Before him are Peter Carl Goldmark, Olive Borden, Eino Penttilä, Boris Papandopulo, Erwin Geschonneck, and Lee Barnes. After him are Thelma Todd, Gerardo Romero, Virginia Hall, Wilfred Jackson, Hans Walzhofer, and Wolfgang Koeppen. Among people deceased in 1978, Victor Hasselblad ranks 173. Before him are Germain Derycke, O. E. Hasse, Josette Day, Gotthard Handrick, Ali Soilih, and Giuseppe Impastato. After him are Alexander Belov, Jānis Daliņš, Philip K. Hitti, Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Sandy Denny, and Edward Lindberg.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Victor Hasselblad ranks 708 out of 1,879. Before him are Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (1921), Einar Englund (1916), Astrid Cleve (1875), Ulf Andersson (1951), Mona Sahlin (1957), and August Malmström (1829). After him are Gunder Hägg (1918), Carl Skottsberg (1880), Karl-Erik Nilsson (1922), Magdalena Forsberg (1967), Fredrik Backman (1981), and Gunnar Sköld (1894).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Victor Hasselblad ranks 7. Before him are John Ericsson (1803), Gideon Sundback (1880), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Nils Bohlin (1920), and Ernst Alexanderson (1878). After him are Simone Giertz (1990).

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