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Gerald Bull

1928 - 1990

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Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. Bull was assassinated outside his apartment in Brussels, Belgium, in March 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald Bull has received more than 1,205,047 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gerald Bull is the 183rd most popular inventor (down from 159th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 89th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Inventor.

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  • 54.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gerald Bull ranks 183 out of 354. Before him are Melvil Dewey, Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, and Friedrich Zander. After him are George Pullman, Royal Rife, J. Presper Eckert, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Charles Xavier Thomas, and Lars Magnus Ericsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Gerald Bull ranks 163. Before him are Bob Cousy, Ralph Waite, Héctor Rial, Pancho Gonzales, Adrian Frutiger, and Pavel Kohout. After him are Branko Mikulić, Maurice Sendak, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Daisaku Ikeda, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, and Jean Vanier. Among people deceased in 1990, Gerald Bull ranks 81. Before him are Tom Fogerty, Dexter Gordon, Shigeo Shingo, Arthur Kennedy, Vaso Čubrilović, and Michel Leiris. After him are Thorbjørn Egner, Georgy Flyorov, Semyon Kurkotkin, Xavier Cugat, Joan Bennett, and Attilio Demaría.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gerald Bull ranks 123 out of 1,350. Before him are Joanna Shimkus (1943), Jean Chrétien (1934), David Morrell (1943), Bonar Law (1858), William Osler (1849), and Brian Kernighan (1942). After him are Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Paul Martin (1938), Gil Evans (1912), Shania Twain (1965), Evangeline Lilly (1979), and Paul Watson (1950).

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Among INVENTORS In Canada

Among inventors born in Canada, Gerald Bull ranks 3. Before him are James Naismith (1861) and Reginald Fessenden (1866). After him are Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907) and Yvonne Brill (1924).

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