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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 432,238 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Henri Coandă is the 101st most popular inventor (down from 99th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Romania (down from 63rd 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 101 out of 354. Before him are Johann Maria Farina, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Bob Kahn, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Edmund Cartwright, and Léon Theremin. After him are Robert Noyce, Taiichi Ohno, W. O. Bentley, Jacque Fresco, William Webb Ellis, and Joseph Pilates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Henri Coandă ranks 40. Before him are Edward C. Tolman, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Kurt Koffka, Aron Nimzowitsch, Paul Tillich, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Archibald Hill, Garegin Nzhdeh, Raymond A. Spruance, Jisaburō Ozawa, Dong Biwu, and Rex Stout. Among people deceased in 1972, Henri Coandă ranks 34. Before him are Georg von Békésy, Ferdinand Čatloš, Margaret Rutherford, Jackie Robinson, Emil Maurice, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy. After him are Karl Silberbauer, Natalie Clifford Barney, Fredric Brown, Lale Andersen, Bronislava Nijinska, and Ásgeir Ásgeirsson.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Henri Coandă ranks 66 out of 665. Before him are Ion Ivanovici (1845), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Ana Pauker (1893), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Mundzuk (368), and Zoia Ceaușescu (1949). After him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), George Emil Palade (1912), Dinu Lipatti (1917), Fritz Klein (1888), Jean Negulesco (1900), and Petre Dumitrescu (1882).

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Among INVENTORS In Romania

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

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