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Arthur Scherbius

1878 - 1929

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Arthur Scherbius (30 October 1878 – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Scherbius has received more than 329,443 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Arthur Scherbius is the 49th most popular engineer (up from 53rd in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,140th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Engineer.

Arthur Scherbius is most famous for inventing the Enigma Machine, which was used by the Nazis to encrypt messages.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

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  • 61.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Scherbius ranks 49 out of 389. Before him are Marcello Gandini, William John Macquorn Rankine, Moshe Arens, Vannevar Bush, Lu Ban, and John Ambrose Fleming. After him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, and Bjarne Stroustrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Arthur Scherbius ranks 29. Before him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Stepan Shaumian, Georg Kaiser, George Whipple, Marcel Grossmann, and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. After him are Yosano Akiko, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Eileen Gray, Yakov Yurovsky, Sadriddin Ayni, and Jan Łukasiewicz. Among people deceased in 1929, Arthur Scherbius ranks 26. Before him are Antoine Bourdelle, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Charles Cooley, Franz Rosenzweig, and Habibullāh Kalakāni. After him are Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Prince Henry of Prussia, Thomas Burke, Richard Réti, Stepa Stepanović, and Asa Griggs Candler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Scherbius ranks 1,085 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), Joseph Pilates (1883), Erich Auerbach (1892), Pierre Littbarski (1960), Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886), and Johann Philipp Reis (1834). After him are Albert Speer (1934), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Carl Reinecke (1824), Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698), William, Duke of Nassau (1792), and Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Arthur Scherbius ranks 10. Before him are August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), and Ernst Heinkel (1888). After him are Kurt Gerstein (1905), Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Claude Dornier (1884), and Christian Otto Mohr (1835).

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