INVENTOR

Henri Coandă

1886 - 1972

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Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə] ; 7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics. In the 1950s, Coandă inflated his importance in aviation history, describing falsely how he had invented the air-breathing jet engine and incorporated that design into the Coandă-1910 aircraft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Coandă has received more than 469,746 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Henri Coandă is the 91st most popular inventor (up from 101st in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Romania (up from 66th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Inventor.

Henri Coandă is most famous for his discovery of the Coanda effect, or the tendency of air to flow around objects.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henri Coandă ranks 91 out of 426. Before him are Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Mary the Jewess, William Webb Ellis, and Wolfgang von Kempelen. After him are Étienne-Jules Marey, André-Jacques Garnerin, Daniel Swarovski, Elisha Otis, Franz Reichelt, and Alphonse Bertillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Henri Coandă ranks 38. Before him are Archibald Hill, Gerda Wegener, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Michael Curtiz, Garegin Nzhdeh, and Vittorio Pozzo. After him are Paul Tillich, Aron Nimzowitsch, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Marcel Dupré, Franz Rosenzweig, and Dong Biwu. Among people deceased in 1972, Henri Coandă ranks 32. Before him are Heinrich Lübke, Max Theiler, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Ghassan Kanafani, Georg von Békésy, and Emil Maurice. After him are Margaret Rutherford, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Jackie Robinson, Antonio Segni, Ferdinand Čatloš, and Said bin Taimur.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Henri Coandă ranks 60 out of 844. Before him are George Emil Palade (1912), Ion Ivanovici (1845), György Dózsa (1470), Zoia Ceaușescu (1949), Stephen Bocskai (1557), and Chivu Stoica (1908). After him are Ana Pauker (1893), Panait Istrati (1884), Sigismund Báthory (1572), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899).

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Among INVENTORS In Romania

Among inventors born in Romania, Henri Coandă ranks 1. After him are Traian Vuia (1872), Orban (1404), and Petrache Poenaru (1799).

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