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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 1,324,947 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gerald Bull is the 212th most popular inventor (down from 183rd in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Canada (down from 123rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Inventor.

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  • 60.76

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gerald Bull ranks 212 out of 426. Before him are Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, and J. Presper Eckert. After him are Robert Metcalfe, Helmut Gröttrup, John Wesley Hyatt, Artur Fischer, George Washington, and Josip Belušić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Gerald Bull ranks 204. Before him are Friedrich Wetter, Sid Watkins, János Kornai, Alexis Korner, Eeva Kilpi, and Fred Rogers. After him are Eunice Gayson, Mohammad Beheshti, Nodar Dumbadze, Dan Blocker, Alejandro de Tomaso, and Édouard Glissant. Among people deceased in 1990, Gerald Bull ranks 98. Before him are Vaso Čubrilović, Carlos Peucelle, Hayedeh, Semyon Kurkotkin, Shigeo Shingo, and J. C. R. Licklider. After him are Hans Freudenthal, Paul Tortelier, Stefano Casiraghi, Berta Karlik, Xavier Cugat, and Rashad Khalifa.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gerald Bull ranks 148 out of 1,622. Before him are Raymond Burr (1917), Jordan Peterson (1962), David Foster (1949), William B. Davis (1938), Paul Watson (1950), and Shania Twain (1965). After him are Joshua Slocum (1844), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Sid Meier (1954), Donald Arnold (1935), James Gosling (1955), and Ted Kotcheff (1931).

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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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