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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 1,310,788 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Eugene Stoner is the 140th most popular engineer, the 3,031st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,989th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Eugene Stoner ranks 140 out of 323. Before him are Johan August Brinell, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Eduard Totleben, J. Walter Christie, Alexey Sudayev, and Georgy Shpagin. After him are Alexei Tupolev, Mikhail Yangel, Philippe LeBon, Riccardo Morandi, Gabriel Voisin, and Li Kui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Eugene Stoner ranks 156. Before him are Anatoli Papanov, Anker Jørgensen, Stanley Schachter, Dilip Kumar, Guy Thys, and Stephen Toulmin. After him are Susanna Agnelli, Elissa Aalto, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, András Hegedüs, Manshuk Mametova, and Jackie Cooper. Among people deceased in 1997, Eugene Stoner ranks 103. Before him are Anatoli Boukreev, Amha Selassie, Uzi Narkiss, Félix Candela, Stanley Schachter, and Andrei Sinyavsky. After him are Shintaro Katsu, Peng Zhen, Jeff Buckley, Edward Mulhare, Martin Schwarzschild, and Adil Çarçani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Stoner ranks 3,031 out of 18,182. Before him are Patti Page (1927), Blake Lively (1987), Rex Tillerson (1952), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Raymond Moody (1944), and Elihu Root (1845). After him are Rhea Perlman (1948), Roger Myerson (1951), Orson Scott Card (1951), Thomas Cech (1947), David Petraeus (1952), and Kate Chopin (1850).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Eugene Stoner ranks 11. Before him are Leslie Groves (1896), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), and J. Walter Christie (1865). After him are Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Gene Kranz (1933), Jon Postel (1943), Seymour Cray (1925), and Charles F. Brush (1849).

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