Malmquist (surname)

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Malmquist ("ore-branch") is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Gunnar Malmquist, a Swedish astronomer
    • 1527 Malmquista, a main-belt asteroid named for Gunnar Malmquist
    • Malmquist bias, a "selection effect" in observational astronomy named for Gunnar Malmquist
  • Sten Malmquist, a Swedish economist and statistician
    • Malmquist index, a bilateral index named for Sten Malmquist that can be used to compare the production technology of two economies
  • Göran Malmqvist, a Swedish linguist, member of the Swedish Academy (Chair No.5), literary historian, sinologist and translator
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