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Jacob Bjerknes

1897 - 1975

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Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes ( YAH-kəb BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈjɑ̀ːkɔb ˈbjæ̂rkneːs]; 2 November 1897 – 7 July 1975) was a meteorologist. He is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north-south heat transport and for which he was also awarded a doctorate from the University of Oslo. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he was the son of the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the pioneers of modern weather forecasting. He helped develop the Norwegian cyclone model. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Bjerknes is the 947th most popular biologist (down from 657th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 653rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 947 out of 1,097. Before him are Walter Buller, Maxine Singer, Maxwell T. Masters, Outram Bangs, Mark Catesby, and Karl Patterson Schmidt. After him are William Yarrell, William Beebe, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Osamu Hayaishi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 268. Before him are George Murdock, Blind Willie Johnson, Juan Natalicio González, Jackson Scholz, Edwin Graves, and Conrad Nagel. After him are Per-Erik Hedlund, Ángel Médici, Tom Florie, Władysław Broniewski, Ramón Gil, and Ivan Borkovský. Among people deceased in 1975, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 227. Before him are Alice Catherine Evans, Oliver Nelson, Paul Verhoeven, Larry Fine, Åge Lundström, and Adrienne Bolland. After him are Viktor Anichkin, Oskar Perron, Per-Erik Hedlund, Henry Louis Hudson, Bram Fischer, and Frank Shields.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 934 out of 1,879. Before him are John Levén (1963), Erik Hamrén (1957), Lennart Strand (1921), Carl Forssell (1917), Jonas Åkerlund (1965), and Wollmar Boström (1878). After him are Christian Wilhelmsson (1979), Arvid Thörn (1911), Karl Johan Svensson (1887), Per-Erik Hedlund (1897), Jonas Björkman (1972), and Maria Bonnevie (1973).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Jacob Bjerknes ranks 31. Before 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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