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Aurel Stodola

1859 - 1942

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Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aurel Stodola has received more than 76,195 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Aurel Stodola is the 228th most popular inventor (up from 252nd in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 97th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Aurel Stodola ranks 228 out of 426. Before him are Vittorio Jano, George Pullman, Lou Ottens, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, and Alexander Parkes. After him are Marcian Hoff, Hubert Cecil Booth, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Ottmar Mergenthaler, and Genrich Altshuller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Aurel Stodola ranks 69. Before him are Otto Warburg, Sergei Lyapunov, Belle Gunness, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, and Mikhail Rodzianko. After him are Adolf Bertram, Kostis Palamas, August von Gödrich, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Ernst Hartert. Among people deceased in 1942, Aurel Stodola ranks 104. Before him are Ahatanhel Krymsky, Lidia Zamenhof, Eusebio Ayala, Adolf Hühnlein, Kiyoura Keigo, and Gerard Philips. After him are Heinrich Vogeler, Epitácio Pessoa, Olga Benário Prestes, Joseph Schmidt, Léon Daudet, and August von Gödrich.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Aurel Stodola ranks 85 out of 418. Before him are Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), Marek Hamšík (1987), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), Andrej Kvašňák (1936), Artúr Görgei (1818), and Martina Hingis (1980). After him are Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Frederick Stafford (1928), Dušan Uhrin (1943), Lya De Putti (1897), Vasiľ Biľak (1917), and Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1888).

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Among INVENTORS In Slovakia

Among inventors born in Slovakia, Aurel Stodola ranks 3. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), and Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871). After him are Jozef Murgaš (1864), and Kálmán Tihanyi (1897).

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