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Christopher Cockerell

1910 - 1999

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Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Cockerell has received more than 210,322 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Christopher Cockerell is the 312th most popular engineer (down from 295th in 2019), the 4,912th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,005th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Christopher Cockerell ranks 312 out of 389. Before him are Isaac Roberts, Marina Popovich, Ron Tauranac, Charles Combes, John R. Pierce, and Othmar Ammann. After him are Jesse Ramsden, Robert Mallet, Louis Armand, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Boris Lisunov, and Joseph Bazalgette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Christopher Cockerell ranks 307. Before him are Otto Andersson, Felipe Olivares, Noel Rosa, Tom Richards, Carl A. Wirtanen, and John R. Pierce. After him are Lien Gisolf, Genrikh Kasparyan, Algisto Lorenzato, Carlo Orlandi, Óscar Osorio, and Gabriel París Gordillo. Among people deceased in 1999, Christopher Cockerell ranks 225. Before him are Humberto Fernández-Morán, Néstor Togneri, Frank Lubin, Georges Miez, Robert Kramer, and Raúl Silva Henríquez. After him are István Nagy, Muhammetnazar Gapurow, Roderick Thorp, Dana Plato, Lloyd La Beach, and Ashley Montagu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christopher Cockerell ranks 4,912 out of 7,253. Before him are Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Edin Terzić (1982), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), and Hermann Lietz (1868). After him are Karin Baal (1940), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Jörg Lucke (1942), Erhard Keller (1944), Matthias Reim (1957), and Frank Schätzing (1957).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Christopher Cockerell ranks 35. Before him are Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Oskar von Miller (1855), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), and Peter Schreyer (1953). After him are Willy Ley (1906), Mario Theissen (1952), Willy Rampf (1953), Peter Hirsch (1925), Matthias Ettrich (1972), and Julius Kühn (1825).

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