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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 369,409 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). George de Mestral is the 185th most popular inventor (up from 212th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Inventor.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George de Mestral ranks 185 out of 426. Before him are James Dyson, Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, Larry Sanger, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. After him are Sandford Fleming, Traian Vuia, Johann Christoph Denner, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Ottaviano Petrucci, and Jethro Tull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, George de Mestral ranks 118. Before him are Álvaro Gestido, Helmut Walcha, Ilona Elek, Ayub Khan, Rudolf Peierls, and Pierre Pflimlin. After him are Sabahattin Ali, Roger Peyrefitte, Marcel Bezençon, Dixie Dean, Heinz Brandt, and Bruno Munari. Among people deceased in 1990, George de Mestral ranks 81. Before him are Nina Kulagina, Sergei Dovlatov, Joan Bennett, Taro Kagawa, Attilio Demaría, and Ronald Evans. After him are Michel Leiris, Eduard Streltsov, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Thorbjørn Egner, Tom Fogerty, and Mariano Rumor.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, George de Mestral ranks 222 out of 1,015. Before him are Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), Françoise-Louise de Warens (1699), Adolphe Appia (1862), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Robert Miles (1969), and Denis de Rougemont (1906). After him are Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Marcel Bezençon (1907), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896).

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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 Rodolphe Lindt (1855).

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