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Hans von Ohain

1911 - 1998

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Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 1911 – 13 March 1998) was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine. Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-inventor of the turbojet engine. However, the historical timelines show that von Ohain was still a university student when, in January 1930, Whittle filed his first patent for a turbojet engine and successfully tested his first engine in April 1937, some 6 months before von Ohain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans von Ohain has received more than 351,805 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hans von Ohain is the 238th most popular inventor (down from 205th in 2019), the 3,137th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,423rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Hans von Ohain ranks 238 out of 426. Before him are Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Genrich Altshuller, L. L. Langstroth, Pavel Yablochkov, and Georges Hébert. After him are Tivadar Puskás, Clive Sinclair, Ottó Bláthy, John Kemp Starley, Thonmi Sambhota, and Ray Dolby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Hans von Ohain ranks 148. Before him are Anatoly Rybakov, Marta Hillers, Hervé Bazin, E. F. Schumacher, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, and Ljubiša Broćić. After him are Nello Pagani, Abderrahmane Farès, José María Arguedas, Louis Dumont, Arkady Raikin, and Hume Cronyn. Among people deceased in 1998, Hans von Ohain ranks 118. Before him are Clara Rockmore, Anatoly Rybakov, Genrich Altshuller, Mancur Olson, Jean Leray, and Bahi Ladgham. After him are Theodor Oberländer, Jerome Robbins, Louis Dumont, Lia Manoliu, Klaus Tennstedt, and John Chadwick.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans von Ohain ranks 3,137 out of 7,253. Before him are Felix von Luckner (1881), Alexander Braun (1805), Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401), Richard Dehmel (1863), Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), and Michael Ballhaus (1935). After him are Rainald of Dassel (1114), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Clara Westhoff (1878), Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1652), Karl Binding (1841), and Adolf Erman (1854).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Hans von Ohain ranks 33. Before him are Oskar Barnack (1879), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Artur Fischer (1919), Max Skladanowsky (1863), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854). After him are Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Wilhelm Bauer (1822).

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