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Henrich Focke

1890 - 1979

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Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrich Focke has received more than 111,831 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henrich Focke is the 178th most popular inventor (up from 219th in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,634th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Inventor.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henrich Focke ranks 178 out of 426. Before him are Reginald Fessenden, Charles Cros, Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, Joseph Monier, and Philo Farnsworth. After him are James Dyson, Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, Larry Sanger, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Henrich Focke ranks 84. Before him are Victoria Ocampo, Walter Weiß, Sarah Aaronsohn, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Jacobus Oud, and Yitzhak Sadeh. After him are Alois Eliáš, Solomon Mikhoels, Ferruccio Parri, Rachel Bluwstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, and Claire Lee Chennault. Among people deceased in 1979, Henrich Focke ranks 79. Before him are Carlo Abarth, Yvonne de Gaulle, Victoria Ocampo, Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Joseph Kessel. After him are Waldemar de Brito, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Walther Gerlach, Teruo Nakamura, Merle Oberon, and Ahmad Zahir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henrich Focke ranks 2,156 out of 7,253. Before him are John A. Roebling (1806), Jürgen Schult (1960), William Dieterle (1893), Dieter Müller (1954), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), and Bruno Lüdke (1908). After him are Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Sami Khedira (1987), Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852), and Martin Sandberger (1911).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Henrich Focke ranks 24. Before him are Uziel Gal (1923), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Siegfried Marcus (1831), and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772). After him are Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), and Artur Fischer (1919).

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