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Barnes Wallis

1887 - 1979

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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was the subject of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barnes Wallis has received more than 911,456 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Barnes Wallis is the 327th most popular inventor (down from 322nd in 2019), the 3,638th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,887th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 24

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  • 3.86

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Barnes Wallis ranks 327 out of 354. Before him are Georges Beuchat, Phil Ramone, Marion Donovan, Norman Joseph Woodland, Roland Moreno, and Per Georg Scheutz. After him are Margaret E. Knight, Ken Olsen, Joseph Engelberger, John Philip Holland, Frank Piasecki, and Amar Bose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Barnes Wallis ranks 209. Before him are Nils Middelboe, David Keilin, Ivan Kavaleridze, Reginald Owen, Albert Gutterson, and Jakob van Hoddis. After him are Arvo Ylppö, Giorgio Zampori, Hedwig Kohn, Jacob L. Devers, Sid Kimpton, and Samuel Eliot Morison. Among people deceased in 1979, Barnes Wallis ranks 186. Before him are Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Dany Dauberson, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, John Norton, and Gustav Winckler. After him are Corinne Griffith, Vasco Bergamaschi, Albert Préjean, Leandro Remondini, Jacob L. Devers, and Hans Scherfig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barnes Wallis ranks 3,638 out of 7,765. Before him are Francis Willughby (1635), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Nicola Sturgeon (1970), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Anthony de la Roché (1700), and Richard Thomas Lowe (1802). After him are Joe Fagan (1921), Eric Thompson (1919), Nathaniel Parker (1962), John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680), Clive Bell (1881), and Edward Carpenter (1844).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Barnes Wallis ranks 56. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), William Friese-Greene (1855), Isaac Pitman (1813), Harry Brearley (1871), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), and Henry Shrapnel (1761). After him are George Graham (1673), Arthur Wynne (1871), John Whitehurst (1713), Roger C. Field (1945), and Lawrence Hargrave (1850).

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