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François Hennebique

1842 - 1921

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François Hennebique (26 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element. The Hennebique system was one of the first appearances of the modern reinforced-concrete method of construction. Hennebique had first worked as a stonemason, later becoming a builder, with a particular interest in restoration of old churches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Hennebique has received more than 56,505 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. François Hennebique is the 210th most popular engineer, the 3,504th most popular biography from France and the 36th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, François Hennebique ranks 210 out of 389. Before him are Mikhail Koshkin, Alexey Sudayev, Arthur Morin, Nikolay Makarov, Semyon Lavochkin, and Benoît Fourneyron. After him are Agustín de Betancourt, Émile Lemoine, Louis Dollo, Yuri Artsutanov, André Waterkeyn, and W. Ross Ashby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, François Hennebique ranks 66. Before him are Alessandro Fortis, Erik Gustaf Boström, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Ellen Swallow Richards, Stojan Novaković, and Heinrich Martin Weber. After him are Georg Friedrich Knapp, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Antero de Quental, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Wilhelm Jordan, and Carl Theodore Liebermann. Among people deceased in 1921, François Hennebique ranks 83. Before him are Gabriela Zapolska, Déodat de Séverac, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, August Nilsson, and Max Noether. After him are Colin Archer, José Miguel Gómez, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Yosef Haim Brenner, Sándor Wekerle, and Alexandre Michon.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Hennebique ranks 3,504 out of 6,770. Before him are Blondel de Nesle (1155), Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Catherine Colonna (1956), Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892), and Benoît Fourneyron (1802). After him are Joanni Perronet (1877), Christophe Dugarry (1972), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Pierre Nicole (1625), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), and Jean Ragnotti (1945).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, François Hennebique ranks 36. Before him are Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Émile Levassor (1843), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Evgeny Paton (1870), Arthur Morin (1795), and Benoît Fourneyron (1802). After him are Émile Lemoine (1840), Louis Dollo (1857), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Léon Serpollet (1858), Charles Renard (1847), and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747).

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