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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 an expanding plastic version of the 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 167,524 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Artur Fischer is the 216th most popular inventor (up from 232nd in 2019), the 2,681st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,750th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Inventor.

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  • 170k

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  • 60.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Artur Fischer ranks 216 out of 426. Before him are Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, Helmut Gröttrup, and John Wesley Hyatt. After him are George Washington, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Walter Hunt, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Vittorio Jano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Artur Fischer ranks 112. Before him are Ferdinand Kübler, Hennes Weisweiler, Ferruccio Valcareggi, J. Presper Eckert, Morteza Motahhari, and Beate Uhse-Rotermund. After him are Bernhard Wicki, Anatoly Dobrynin, Vikram Sarabhai, Doris Miller, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Paavo Aaltonen. Among people deceased in 2016, Artur Fischer ranks 161. Before him are Curtis Hanson, Ferdinand Kübler, Richard Adams, Peter Shaffer, Ilse Aichinger, and Bill Nunn. After him are Frano Selak, Jadranka Stojaković, Papa Wemba, Mark Taimanov, Franciszek Macharski, and Pierre Barouh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 2,681 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Pam Ferris (1948), Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg (1664), George Dzundza (1945), Valerius Cordus (1515), and Friedrich Merz (1955). After him are Ferdinand David (1810), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), Johann Peter Frank (1745), Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia (1128), Fritz Müller (1822), and Hans Delbrück (1848).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 30. Before him are Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), and Helmut Gröttrup (1916). After him are Max Skladanowsky (1863), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Hans von Ohain (1911), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), and Ricardo Wolf (1887).

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