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Eugene Stoner

1922 - 1997

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Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997) was an American machinist and firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company for the United States military as the M16 rifle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Stoner has received more than 1,409,141 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Stoner is the 179th most popular engineer (down from 138th in 2019), the 3,767th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,024th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Engineer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Eugene Stoner ranks 179 out of 389. Before him are Hellmuth Walter, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Nikolay Kamov, Vasily Mishin, Gotthilf Hagen, and Robert Maillart. After him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Hugo Eckener, Alfred Neubauer, Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, and Michele Besso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Eugene Stoner ranks 193. Before him are Sinan Hasani, Patrick Magee, Michael Ansara, William Baumol, Adil Çarçani, and Carlo Lizzani. After him are Alexander Kazhdan, Gilberto Agustoni, Vsevolod Bobrov, Stanley Schachter, George McGovern, and Władysław Bartoszewski. Among people deceased in 1997, Eugene Stoner ranks 129. Before him are K. Shivaram Karanth, Dick van Dijk, Adil Çarçani, Cheddi Jagan, Juzo Itami, and Josef Posipal. After him are Lam Ching-ying, Alexander Kazhdan, Stanley Schachter, Andrei Sinyavsky, Antoine Cuissard, and Hans Bauer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Stoner ranks 3,767 out of 20,380. Before him are Lori Lightfoot (1962), Golden State Killer (1945), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), David Foster Wallace (1962), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), and Tiger Woods (1975). After him are Isadore Singer (1924), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Jim Hall (1930), Lunalilo (1835), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), and McCoy Tyner (1938).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Eugene Stoner ranks 12. Before him are Henry Gantt (1861), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), and Joseph Strauss (1870). After him are Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), Seymour Cray (1925), and Ed Heinemann (1908).

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