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Yrjö Väisälä

1891 - 1971

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Yrjö Väisälä (Finnish: [ˈyrjø ˈʋæi̯sælæ] ; 6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist. His main contributions were in the field of optics. He was also active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yrjö Väisälä has received more than 53,407 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Yrjö Väisälä is the 191st most popular astronomer (down from 189th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Finland (down from 85th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Yrjö Väisälä ranks 191 out of 644. Before him are N. R. Pogson, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Henri Debehogne, Edward L. G. Bowell, Andrew Graham, and Robert Grant Aitken. After him are Liisi Oterma, Eleanor F. Helin, Andreas Cellarius, Francis Baily, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, and Martin Schwarzschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Yrjö Väisälä ranks 77. Before him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Werner Lorenz, Shizo Kanakuri, Henry Tandey, Diana Budisavljević, and Evgeny Pashukanis. After him are Tin Ujević, Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, Kálmán Kalocsay, Charles Munch, and Kim Seong-su. Among people deceased in 1971, Yrjö Väisälä ranks 66. Before him are Pedro Rodríguez, Philo Farnsworth, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Princess Anna of Montenegro, Van Heflin, and Paul Lukas. After him are Hermann Ehrhardt, József Zakariás, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Edie Sedgwick, Margaret Bourke-White, and John W. Campbell.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Yrjö Väisälä ranks 86 out of 751. Before him are Henri Toivonen (1956), Jarno Saarinen (1945), Edvard Westermarck (1862), Matthias Castrén (1813), Clas Thunberg (1893), and Tommi Mäkinen (1964). After him are Liisi Oterma (1915), Elissa Aalto (1922), Markku Alén (1951), Aimo Cajander (1879), Minna Canth (1844), and Ilmari Juutilainen (1914).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Finland

Among astronomers born in Finland, Yrjö Väisälä ranks 1. After him are Liisi Oterma (1915), Heikki A. Alikoski (1912), and Hugo Gyldén (1841).

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