The Most Famous

INVENTORS from Luxembourg

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This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 426 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 30th most number of Inventors behind Iraq, and Ukraine.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Inventors of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. William Justin Kroll (1889 - 1973)

With an HPI of 49.66, William Justin Kroll is the most famous Luxembourger Inventor.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

See also German classic philologist, Wilhelm Kroll (philologist) (1869–1939).William Justin Kroll (born Guillaume Justin Kroll; November 24, 1889 – March 30, 1973) was a Luxembourgish metallurgist. He is best known for inventing the Kroll process in 1940, which is used commercially to extract metallic titanium from ore.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Luxembourger inventors born between 1889 and 1889. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger inventors include William Justin Kroll. As of April 2024, 1 new Luxembourger inventors have been added to Pantheon including William Justin Kroll.

Deceased Luxembourger Inventors

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Newly Added Luxembourger Inventors (2024)

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