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George de Mestral

1907 - 1990

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George de Mestral ((1907-06-19)19 June 1907 – (1990-02-08)8 February 1990) was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook and loop fastener which he named Velcro. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George de Mestral has received more than 349,264 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. George de Mestral is the 212th most popular inventor (down from 178th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 197th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George de Mestral ranks 212 out of 354. Before him are John Wesley Hyatt, Eli Whitney, Helmut Gröttrup, Max Skladanowsky, Robert Cornelius, and Henry Maudslay. After him are Larry Sanger, Gaston Glock, Émile Baudot, François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, and Slavoljub Eduard Penkala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, George de Mestral ranks 129. Before him are Lev Oborin, Bo Gu, Yves Allégret, Viktoria Brezhneva, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, and Takeo Wakabayashi. After him are Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Walter Frentz, Sergei Kruglov, Isaac Deutscher, and Rudolf Peierls. Among people deceased in 1990, George de Mestral ranks 95. Before him are Ronald Evans, Paul Tortelier, Horst Sindermann, Stefano Casiraghi, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Wolfgang Schmieder. After him are Naoto Tajima, Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Irene Dunne, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, and Carlos Peucelle.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, George de Mestral ranks 242 out of 876. Before him are DJ BoBo (1968), Jean Starobinski (1920), Heinz Holliger (1939), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Rudolf Wolf (1816), and Ludwig Senfl (1486). After him are Vincent Perez (1964), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Henri Schwery (1932), Emer de Vattel (1714), Wiborada (900), and Emma Jung (1882).

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Among INVENTORS In Switzerland

Among inventors born in Switzerland, George de Mestral ranks 2. Before him are Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747). After him are Georges Beuchat (1910).

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