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Bengt Edlén

1906 - 1993

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Bengt Edlén (2 November 1906, Gusum – 10 February 1993, Lund) was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He was the first who identified the unknown coronal spectral lines in the Corona, which was used to calculate the temperature of the corona. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bengt Edlén is the 690th most popular physicist (up from 755th in 2019), the 854th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,049th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bengt Edlén ranks 690 out of 851. Before him are Aleksandr Andronov, Bert Bolin, Sulamith Goldhaber, Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, and Nicholas Kurti. After him are Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Nikolay Umov, Michael Fisher, Maurice Goldhaber, Leo Kadanoff, and Yoseph Imry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Bengt Edlén ranks 327. Before him are Carl-Erik Holmberg, Thelma Todd, Abdylas Maldybaev, Irving Jaffee, Jean Dréville, and Erna Bogen-Bogáti. After him are Gustav Schäfer, Márton Homonnai, Alberto Denegri, Márcio Melo, Henry Roth, and Ludwig Lachmann. Among people deceased in 1993, Bengt Edlén ranks 214. Before him are Akio Kaminaga, Viola Myers, Edwin Vásquez, Ivan Kozlovsky, Jean Cau, and Joe Kelly. After him are Tony Barton, John Hersey, Margarita Nikolaeva, Marjorie Clark, Janusz Sidło, and Zeno Colò.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bengt Edlén ranks 854 out of 1,879. Before him are Dagny Carlsson (1912), Sylvia Vrethammar (1945), Alice Tegnér (1864), Axel Norling (1884), Mats Wahl (1945), and Jan Olsson (1942). After him are Kee Marcello (1960), Knut Fridell (1908), Peter Forsberg (1973), Günther (1967), Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944), and David Dencik (1974).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Bengt Edlén ranks 14. Before him are Christopher Polhem (1661), Oskar Klein (1894), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Knut Ångström (1857), and Bert Bolin (1925). After him are Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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