The Most Famous

Physicists from Finland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 2 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 39th most number of Physicists behind Iraq and Indonesia.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Physicists of all time. This list of famous Finnish Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Gunnar Nordström (1881 - 1923)

With an HPI of 59.06, Gunnar Nordström is the most famous Finnish Physicist.   biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

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2. Vilho Väisälä (1889 - 1969)

With an HPI of 53.85, Vilho Väisälä is the 2nd most famous Finnish Physicist.   biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Finnish physicists born between 1881 and 1889. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Finnish physicists include Gunnar Nordström, and Vilho Väisälä.

Deceased Finnish Physicists

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