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Carl-Gustaf Rossby

1898 - 1957

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Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav ˈǎrːvɪd ˈrɔ̌sːbʏ] 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet stream and the long waves in the westerlies that were later named Rossby waves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl-Gustaf Rossby is the 595th most popular biologist (up from 630th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 626th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 595 out of 1,097. Before him are Nathaniel Lord Britton, Georg Ossian Sars, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Joseph Leidy, and Charles De Geer. After him are Tsuneko Okazaki, John Murray, Francisco J. Ayala, George Clifford III, Ruth Arnon, and Antoine Risso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 155. Before him are Maria Klenova, Helen B. Taussig, Ira Sprague Bowen, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, and Anthony McAuliffe. After him are Boughera El Ouafi, Lev Knipper, Jimmy Douglas, Norman Vincent Peale, Mikhail Koshkin, and Alfons Gorbach. Among people deceased in 1957, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 138. Before him are Augusto Genina, Norma Talmadge, James Whale, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Peter Freuchen, and Ted Meredith. After him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Bugs Moran, Ralph Benatzky, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Marie Vassilieff, and Alice Milliat.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 532 out of 1,879. Before him are Martin Dahlin (1968), Fanny Brate (1861), Gösta Lilliehöök (1884), Gunnar Eriksson (1921), Torgny Lindgren (1938), and Charles De Geer (1720). After him are Erik Lundqvist (1908), Rickard Sandler (1884), Karl Staaff (1860), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Åsa Larsson (1966), and Thomas Hammarberg (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl-Gustaf Rossby ranks 24. Before him are Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), and Charles De Geer (1720). After him are Nils Johan Andersson (1821), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Anders Dahl (1751), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl Skottsberg (1880), and Astrid Cleve (1875).

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