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Bert Bolin

1925 - 2007

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Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (Swedish: [ˈbæʈː bʊˈliːn]; 15 May 1925 – 30 December 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997. He was professor of meteorology at Stockholm University from 1961 until his retirement in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bert Bolin is the 685th most popular physicist (down from 609th in 2019), the 840th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 648th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bert Bolin ranks 685 out of 851. Before him are Ralph Kronig, Hertha Sponer, Gregory Breit, Alfred Kleiner, Paul Peter Ewald, and Aleksandr Andronov. After him are Sulamith Goldhaber, Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, Nicholas Kurti, Bengt Edlén, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Bert Bolin ranks 386. Before him are Alain Peyrefitte, Mal Waldron, John Baptist Wu, Ron Tauranac, Ruth First, and Olga Aroseva. After him are Károly Makk, Jean Cau, Rosemary Murphy, Miiko Taka, Carla Del Poggio, and Andrei Eshpai. Among people deceased in 2007, Bert Bolin ranks 289. Before him are Kerwin Mathews, Walter Kempowski, Florea Dumitrache, Hans Sturm, Tony Scott, and Ernesto Alonso. After him are Srđan Mrkušić, Aaron Russo, Heinz Schiller, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Izumi Sakai, and Paule Desjardins.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bert Bolin ranks 840 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl-Erik Holmberg (1906), Arvid Knöppel (1867), Haakon Sörvik (1886), Mic Michaeli (1962), Arne Sucksdorff (1917), and Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland (1852). After him are Bengt Eriksson (1931), Andreas Isaksson (1981), Claes Johanson (1884), Lars Hanson (1886), Tomas Ledin (1952), and Ann Linde (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Bert Bolin ranks 13. Before him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Christopher Polhem (1661), Oskar Klein (1894), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), and Knut Ångström (1857). After him are Bengt Edlén (1906), Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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