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Felix Wankel

1902 - 1988

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Felix Heinrich Wankel (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvaŋkl̩]; 13 August 1902 – 9 October 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Wankel has received more than 289,009 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Wankel is the 34th most popular engineer (down from 30th in 2019), the 825th most popular biography from Germany (down from 671st in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Engineer.

Felix wankel is most famous for inventing the wankel engine, which is a type of internal combustion engine.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Felix Wankel ranks 34 out of 323. Before him are José Echegaray, Hugo Junkers, Lennart Torstensson, Jiro Horikoshi, Theodore von Kármán, and Villard de Honnecourt. After him are Pavel Sukhoi, Howard H. Aiken, Godfrey Hounsfield, Anthony Fokker, John Ambrose Fleming, and Alexander Wienerberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Felix Wankel ranks 39. Before him are Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, André Michel Lwoff, and Mitsuo Fuchida. After him are Fritz Strassmann, Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, Luis Barragán, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. Among people deceased in 1988, Felix Wankel ranks 20. Before him are Roy Orbison, Raymond Carver, Juan Pujol García, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Virginia Satir, and Gert Fröbe. After him are John Holmes, Clifford D. Simak, Luis Barragán, André Frédéric Cournand, Tibor Sekelj, and Paul Grice.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Wankel ranks 825 out of 6,142. Before him are Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Luz Long (1913), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Gottfried Feder (1883), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801). After him are Joseph Wirth (1879), Max Delbrück (1906), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Theodor Fontane (1819), Therese Neumann (1898), and Fritz Haarmann (1879).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Felix Wankel ranks 8. Before him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), and Hugo Junkers (1859). After him are Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), Claude Dornier (1884), and Erich Topp (1914).

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