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André Waterkeyn

1917 - 2005

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André Waterkeyn (23 August 1917 – 4 October 2005) was a Belgian engineer, born in Wimbledon, London, best known for creating the Atomium. Waterkeyn was the economic director of Fabrimetal (now Agoria), a federation of metallurgical companies when in 1954 he was asked to design a building for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58) that would symbolise Belgian engineering skills. Waterkeyn owned the copyrights of all reproductions of the Atomium until he passed it over to the organisation owning the original building around the year 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Waterkeyn has received more than 44,065 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). André Waterkeyn is the 211th most popular engineer (down from 206th in 2019), the 2,540th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,457th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, André Waterkeyn ranks 211 out of 323. Before him are Preston Tucker, Ed Heinemann, Charles Renard, Sergei Tumansky, Franz Grashof, and Paul Mauser. After him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Emily Warren Roebling, Benoît Fourneyron, and Eugene Polley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, André Waterkeyn ranks 175. Before him are Zainab al Ghazali, Domenico Bartolucci, David Tomlinson, Asima Chatterjee, Robert Byrd, and Knut Haugland. After him are Yuri Lyubimov, Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, Lena Horne, Musine Kokalari, Johannes Bobrowski, and Alice Pearce. Among people deceased in 2005, André Waterkeyn ranks 148. Before him are John Spencer, Eduardo Paolozzi, Corrado Bafile, Donald Watson, Alexander Gomelsky, and George Gerbner. After him are Sunil Dutt, Serge Lang, Frank Gorshin, Virginia Mayo, Camillo Felgen, and Erik Balling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 2,540 out of 7,765. Before him are Matthew Locke (1621), Marianne North (1830), Mick Ronson (1946), Mick Fleetwood (1947), Ken Livingstone (1945), and Christopher Hogwood (1941). After him are Thomas Blake Glover (1838), John Aubrey (1626), John Williams (1903), Jerome Flynn (1963), Trevor Pinnock (1946), and Charles James Fox (1749).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 21. Before him are Hertha Ayrton (1854), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), and W. Ross Ashby (1903). After him are Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), and Geoffrey de Havilland (1882).

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