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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 48,097 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). André Waterkeyn is the 215th most popular engineer (down from 209th in 2019), the 2,497th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,534th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, André Waterkeyn ranks 215 out of 389. Before him are Benoît Fourneyron, François Hennebique, Agustín de Betancourt, Émile Lemoine, Louis Dollo, and Yuri Artsutanov. After him are W. Ross Ashby, Charles F. Brush, Ma Jun, Georgy Beriev, Seymour Cray, and Ed Heinemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, André Waterkeyn ranks 174. Before him are Dmitry Belyayev, Celeste Holm, Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, M. G. Ramachandran, Lena Horne, and Abdullah al-Sallal. After him are Yuri Lyubimov, Ilse Steppat, Tetyana Yablonska, Luigi Poggi, Steno, and William H. McNeill. Among people deceased in 2005, André Waterkeyn ranks 155. Before him are Corrado Bafile, Virginia Mayo, Martin Lings, Zurab Zhvania, Gary Bertini, and Camillo Felgen. After him are Tetyana Yablonska, Shirley Horn, Pál Losonczi, Link Wray, Françoise d'Eaubonne, and Juan José Saer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 2,497 out of 8,785. Before him are William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724), Jane Morris (1839), Lindsay Duncan (1950), Samuel Clarke (1675), Gareth Southgate (1970), and Martin Peters (1943). After him are Norman Wisdom (1915), Edward Coke (1552), Ian Bannen (1928), Andy Murray (1987), Laurence Doherty (1875), and Hugh Bonneville (1963).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 20. Before him are John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Smeaton (1724), and John Hughes (1814). After him are W. Ross Ashby (1903), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), and Robert W. Paul (1869).

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