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Allvar Gullstrand

1862 - 1930

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Allvar Gullstrand (5 June 1862 – 28 July 1930) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allvar Gullstrand is the 26th most popular physician (up from 31st in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Physician.

Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist who is most famous for his invention of the contact lens.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 26 out of 726. Before him are Nestorius, Róbert Bárány, Cesare Lombroso, Georgius Agricola, Cyril of Alexandria, and Michael Servetus. After him are Al-Zahrawi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, John Snow, Alois Alzheimer, Christiaan Eijkman, and Willem Einthoven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 7. Before him are Gustav Klimt, Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, and Gerhart Hauptmann. After him are William Henry Bragg, Hilma af Klint, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, Arthur Schnitzler, and Joseph Merrick. Among people deceased in 1930, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 8. Before him are D. H. Lawrence, Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, Alfred Wegener, Mary Harris Jones, and Zewditu. After him are Fritz Pregl, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, William Howard Taft, Joan Gamper, and Lon Chaney.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 39 out of 1,879. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886), Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Gustaf Dalén (1869), and Charles IX of Sweden (1550). After him are Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844), Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901), John III of Sweden (1537), and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Sweden

Among physicians born in Sweden, Allvar Gullstrand ranks 1. After him are Ulf von Euler (1905), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Thomas Bartholin (1616), Torsten Wiesel (1924), Hans Rosling (1948), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), Anders Tegnell (1956), and Anna Bågenholm (1970).

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