INVENTOR

Georges Claude

1870 - 1960

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Georges Claude (24 September 1870 – 23 May 1960) was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Claude has received more than 177,243 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Georges Claude is the 180th most popular inventor (down from 170th in 2019), the 2,288th most popular biography from France (down from 2,154th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Inventor.

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  • 56.08

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Georges Claude ranks 180 out of 426. Before him are Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, Joseph Monier, Philo Farnsworth, Henrich Focke, and James Dyson. After him are Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, Larry Sanger, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, George de Mestral, and Sandford Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Georges Claude ranks 67. Before him are Leopold Godowsky, Guillaume Lekeu, Emil Orlík, David Riazanov, Herbert Kilpin, and Saki. After him are Thomas Byles, Leonid Krasin, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Reginald Lee, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1960, Georges Claude ranks 64. Before him are Hans Wilsdorf, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, A. L. Kroeber, José Antonio Aguirre, Bruno Loerzer, and Edwin Fischer. After him are Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Princess Xenia of Montenegro, Leonard Woolley, Wander Johannes de Haas, Józef Haller, and Hans Albers.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Claude ranks 2,288 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe Leroy (1930), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Claude Cahun (1894), François Berléand (1952), Hans von Salmuth (1888), and Jean Chacornac (1823). After him are Edgar Faure (1908), Pierre Henry (1927), Claire Denis (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Georges Claude ranks 27. Before him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Édouard Branly (1844), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), and Joseph Monier (1823). After him are Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Hébert (1875), Léon Gaumont (1864), Wan Hu (1510), and Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815).

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