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Gustaf Dalén

1869 - 1937

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Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] ; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustaf Dalén is the 84th most popular physicist (up from 95th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Physicist.

Gustaf Dalén is most famous for inventing the gas-operated fire extinguisher.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gustaf Dalén ranks 84 out of 851. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Manne Siegbahn, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Victor Francis Hess. After him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Johannes Stark, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Rudolf Clausius, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Georg Bednorz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Gustaf Dalén ranks 9. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, and Neville Chamberlain. After him are Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Fritz Pregl, Mary Mallon, Emma Goldman, and Bogd Khan. Among people deceased in 1937, Gustaf Dalén ranks 14. Before him are H. P. Lovecraft, Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and George Gershwin. After him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, J. M. Barrie, Gerda Taro, and Austen Chamberlain.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 37 out of 1,879. Before him are Gustav III of Sweden (1746), Greta Garbo (1905), Manne Siegbahn (1886), Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), and Agnetha Fältskog (1950). After him are Charles IX of Sweden (1550), Allvar Gullstrand (1862), Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844), and Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Gustaf Dalén ranks 2. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886). After him are Hannes Alfvén (1908), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), 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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