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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 145,384 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Gideon Sundback is the 126th most popular inventor (down from 117th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 172nd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Inventor.

Gideon Sundback was most famous for inventing the zipper.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gideon Sundback ranks 126 out of 354. Before him are John Kay, Richard Jordan Gatling, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Zénobe Gramme, Lee de Forest, and Josef Ressel. After him are Elisha Gray, Robert Adler, Hugo Schmeisser, Henri Giffard, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Robert Stirling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Gideon Sundback ranks 43. Before him are Álvaro Obregón, Akiba Rubinstein, Mack Sennett, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Alfred Einstein, and Ernest Bloch. After him are Ugo Cavallero, Alexander Grin, Alice Bailey, Adam Czerniaków, Elizabeth of the Trinity, and Martiros Saryan. Among people deceased in 1954, Gideon Sundback ranks 32. Before him are Martin Andersen Nexø, Charles Ives, Léon Jouhaux, Thea von Harbou, Clemens Krauss, and Franco Alfano. After him are Archduke Eugen of Austria, Stig Dagerman, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Viktor Abakumov, Sadriddin Ayni, and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gideon Sundback ranks 195 out of 1,612. Before him are Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Ann-Margret (1941), Gunnar Björnstrand (1909), Gunilla Bielke (1568), and Lars Levi Laestadius (1800). After him are Maj Sjöwall (1935), Mats Wilander (1964), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Per Gessle (1959), and Sigvard Bernadotte (1907).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Gideon Sundback ranks 1. After him are John Ericsson (1803), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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