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Christopher Cockerell

1910 - 1999

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Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS (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 196,669 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Christopher Cockerell is the 297th most popular engineer (down from 283rd in 2019), the 4,013th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,020th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Engineer.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Christopher Cockerell ranks 297 out of 323. Before him are Butler Lampson, Octave Chanute, R. J. Mitchell, Guenther Steiner, Louis Armand, and Hugh Latimer Dryden. After him are Robert H. Dennard, John R. Pierce, Franciszek Rychnowski, Yaakov Ziv, Aldo Costa, and Mario Theissen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Christopher Cockerell ranks 291. Before him are Wilhelm Brinkmann, Felipe Rosas, Óscar Osorio, Sulo Bärlund, Algisto Lorenzato, and Nathan Jacobson. After him are Ester Boserup, Ralph Metcalfe, Max Miedinger, Ramón Zabalo, Robert Buron, and Giancarlo Brusati. Among people deceased in 1999, Christopher Cockerell ranks 213. Before him are Josef Zeman, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Mel Tormé, Arturo Fernández Meyzán, Annibale Frossi, and Nathan Jacobson. After him are Necil Kazım Akses, Ester Boserup, Néstor Togneri, Hoyt Axton, Paul-Émile de Souza, and Charles Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Cockerell ranks 4,013 out of 7,765. Before him are Mary Moser (1744), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Alex Salmond (1954), Mark Herman (1954), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and John Loder (1898). After him are Carole Shelley (1939), Theo Walcott (1989), Juliet Mills (1941), Michael Frayn (1933), Mick Rock (1948), and William Hopkins (1793).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Cockerell ranks 32. Before him are James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), and R. J. Mitchell (1895). After him are Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Symonds (1953), Pat Fry (1964), and Tommy Flowers (1905).

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