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Vilhelm Bjerknes

1862 - 1951

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Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ( BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelm Bjerknes has received more than 127,736 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Vilhelm Bjerknes is the 485th most popular physicist (down from 474th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Norway (down from 168th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Vilhelm Bjerknes ranks 485 out of 851. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, and Marian Smoluchowski. After him are G. M. B. Dobson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, John Leslie, Martin Knudsen, Ivan Puluj, and Maurice Karnaugh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Vilhelm Bjerknes ranks 81. Before him are Friedrich Meinecke, William Wallace Campbell, Alexander Guchkov, Robert Ford, Fatma Aliye Topuz, and Charles Evans Hughes. After him are Maurice Emmanuel, Abram Arkhipov, Movses Silikyan, Vladimir Burtsev, Agnes Pockels, and Eugène Jansson. Among people deceased in 1951, Vilhelm Bjerknes ranks 86. Before him are Vasiliy Ulrikh, Riad Al Solh, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Paula von Preradović, István Friedrich, and Bernhard Kellermann. After him are Edgar Rubin, Fritz Busch, Fumiko Hayashi, Pedro Salinas, Robert Broom, and José Enrique Varela.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Vilhelm Bjerknes ranks 177 out of 1,039. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen (1867), Berit Mørdre (1940), Ole Ellefsæter (1939), Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), and Ole-Johan Dahl (1931). After him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Jens Munk (1579), Oscar Wisting (1871), Bjørn Wirkola (1943), Lars Korvald (1916), and Niels Juel (1629).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Norway

Among physicists born in Norway, Vilhelm Bjerknes ranks 2. Before him are Ivar Giaever (1929). After him are Ole Jacob Broch (1818).

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