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Anders Jonas Ångström

1814 - 1874

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Anders Jonas Ångström (; Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈjûːnas ˈɔ̂ŋːstrœm]; 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Ångström is also well known for his studies of astrophysics, heat transfer, terrestrial magnetism, and the aurora borealis. In 1852, Ångström formulated in Optiska undersökningar (Optical investigations), a law of absorption, later modified somewhat and known as Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anders Jonas Ångström is the 123rd most popular physicist (down from 113th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 64th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Physicist.

Anders Ångström is most famous for his discovery of the Ångström unit, a measurement of length.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 123 out of 851. Before him are Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, Albert Fert, and Owen Chamberlain. After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, and Arthur Compton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, and Samuel Colt. After him are Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1874, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 1. After him are Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, Howard Staunton, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, David Strauss, Charles Gleyre, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Johann Philipp Reis, Josiah Warren, and Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 54 out of 1,879. Before him are Björn Ulvaeus (1945), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Haakon VI of Norway (1340), Eric XIV of Sweden (1533), and Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937). After him are Eyvind Johnson (1900), Hilma af Klint (1862), Gideon Sundback (1880), Max von Sydow (1929), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), and Harry Martinson (1904).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Anders Jonas Ångström ranks 4. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886), Gustaf Dalén (1869), and Hannes Alfvén (1908). After him are Kai Siegbahn (1918), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Christopher Polhem (1661), Oskar Klein (1894), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), and Knut Ångström (1857).

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