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Artur Fischer

1919 - 2016

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Artur Fischer (31 December 1919 – 27 January 2016) was a German inventor. He is best known for inventing the plastic expanding wall plug. Born in Tumlingen, Artur Fischer was the son of the village tailor Georg Fischer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Artur Fischer has received more than 141,469 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Artur Fischer is the 232nd most popular inventor (up from 245th in 2019), the 2,753rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,946th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Inventor.

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  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Artur Fischer ranks 232 out of 354. Before him are Ruth Handler, Ricardo Wolf, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ottomar Anschütz, Elihu Thomson, and Lucien Olivier. After him are Genrich Altshuller, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Eugen Langen, Fritz von Opel, and Léon Gaumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Artur Fischer ranks 119. Before him are Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Bep Voskuijl, Julia Robinson, Morteza Motahhari, Bernhard Wicki, and Paul de Man. After him are Mad Mike Hoare, Abdirashid Shermarke, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, G. E. M. Anscombe, Robert Stack, and Doris Miller. Among people deceased in 2016, Artur Fischer ranks 173. Before him are Guido Westerwelle, Lola Novaković, Jay Wright Forrester, Bill Mollison, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, and Fredrik Barth. After him are Fazil Iskander, Zdravko Tolimir, Franciszek Macharski, Scotty Moore, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and Paul Kantner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 2,753 out of 6,142. Before him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), Heinrich Marx (1777), Fredrik Barth (1928), Abraham Geiger (1810), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), and Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796). After him are Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), Ernst Schröder (1841), Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), and Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 32. Before him are Oskar Barnack (1879), Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Henrich Focke (1890), and Ricardo Wolf (1887). After him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Adolf Martens (1850), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789).

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