INVENTOR

Gideon Sundback

1880 - 1954

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Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gideon Sundback has received more than 152,939 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Gideon Sundback is the 154th most popular inventor (down from 126th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 194th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Inventor.

Gideon Sundback was most famous for inventing the zipper.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gideon Sundback ranks 154 out of 426. Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Viktor Schauberger, Bob Kahn, Jang Yeong-sil, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Alfred Vail. After him are Peter Henlein, Heinrich Göbel, Fausto Veranzio, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Garrett Morgan, and William Murdoch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Gideon Sundback ranks 63. Before him are Mitsumasa Yonai, Abram Ioffe, Margherita Sarfatti, Nikolaj Velimirović, Osami Nagano, and Alexander Grin. After him are Jacques Thibaud, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Jan Kubelík, Vasily Degtyaryov, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Alice Bailey. Among people deceased in 1954, Gideon Sundback ranks 44. Before him are Princess Margaret of Prussia, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Günther Quandt, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Ahmed Nihad, and Viktor Abakumov. After him are Oscar Straus, Lionel Barrymore, Stig Dagerman, Theodor Kaluza, Claude Cahun, and Princess Antonia of Luxembourg.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gideon Sundback ranks 268 out of 1,879. Before him are Stefan Edberg (1966), Jan-Ove Waldner (1965), Håkan Nesser (1950), Björn Waldegård (1943), Johann Patkul (1660), and Carl Adolph Agardh (1785). After him are Torsten Wiesel (1924), Torbern Bergman (1735), Harry Nyquist (1889), Joey Tempest (1963), Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), and Bruno Liljefors (1860).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Gideon Sundback ranks 2. Before him are John Ericsson (1803). After him are Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Nils Bohlin (1920), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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