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Knut Ångström

1857 - 1910

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Knut Johan Ångström (12 January 1857 – 4 March 1910) was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and studied in Uppsala from 1877 to 1884, when he received his licentiat-degree, before going for a short time to the University of Strassburg (Strasbourg) to study with August Kundt. Coming back to Uppsala, he completed his doctoral degree and was appointed lecturer in physics at the new university college in Stockholm (now Stockholm University) in 1885. After a few years working there, he returned to Uppsala in 1891 and received the professorship of Physics in 1896. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Knut Ångström is the 557th most popular physicist (down from 538th in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 507th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Knut Ångström ranks 557 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Gene Amdahl, Robert H. Dicke, Philip Morrison, Richard Mollier, and Ursula Franklin. After him are Giuseppe Occhialini, William Astbury, Samuel T. Cohen, Wander Johannes de Haas, Ernest Marsden, and Boris Rosing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Knut Ångström ranks 96. Before him are Friedrich von Ingenohl, Henry Dudeney, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Gabriela Zapolska, Otto Stapf, and Shibli Nomani. After him are Fergus Suter, James Edward Keeler, Ernst Trygger, Theodor Curtius, Ivo Vojnović, and Pedro Paterno. Among people deceased in 1910, Knut Ångström ranks 73. Before him are Kálmán Mikszáth, Michele Rua, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Pedro Montt, Constantin Fahlberg, and Fredrik von Otter. After him are Julien Dupré, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Emil Zuckerkandl, Tarabai Shinde, Julius Petersen, and Hugo Erdmann.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 544 out of 1,879. Before him are Thomas Hammarberg (1942), Sune Andersson (1921), Slim Borgudd (1946), Sofia Helin (1972), Fredrik von Otter (1833), and Maria Röhl (1801). After him are Olle Hellbom (1925), Otto Andersson (1910), Janet Ågren (1949), Bo Johansson (1942), Lea Ahlborn (1826), and Lennart Nilsson (1922).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Knut Ångström ranks 12. Before him are Johannes Rydberg (1854), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Christopher Polhem (1661), Oskar Klein (1894), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), and Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874). After him are Bert Bolin (1925), Bengt Edlén (1906), Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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