INVENTOR

Gaston Glock

1929 - 2023

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Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman. He founded the company Glock. When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Glock has received more than 1,337,312 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gaston Glock is the 110th most popular inventor (up from 214th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Austria (up from 527th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Inventor.

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  • 66.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gaston Glock ranks 110 out of 426. Before him are John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Pilates, Johann Philipp Reis, Clément Ader, and Abraham-Louis Breguet. After him are Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, Zacharias Janssen, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Josiah Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Gaston Glock ranks 87. Before him are Yozo Aoki, E. O. Wilson, Gerald Edelman, Chadli Bendjedid, Omar Torrijos, and Francis Gary Powers. After him are Nikolai Ryzhkov, Claes Oldenburg, Alfred Moisiu, Isabel Sarli, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Among people deceased in 2023, Gaston Glock ranks 84. Before him are Leiji Matsumoto, Boniface Alexandre, Hans Modrow, Robert Lucas Jr., Marisa Pavan, and Carla Bley. After him are Milan Milutinović, Henri Konan Bédié, Antonella Lualdi, Frank Borman, Viktor Belenko, and Gianni Vattimo.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 279 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818), Max Steiner (1888), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Walter Kohn (1923), Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), and Hans Hollein (1934). After him are Paul Watzlawick (1921), Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632), Oskar Werner (1922), Guido von List (1848), Baron Alexander von Bach (1813), and Alexander Wienerberger (1891).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 1. After him are Robert Adler (1913), Georg Luger (1849), Viktor Schauberger (1885), and Štefan Banič (1870).

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