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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hyman G. Rickover

1900 - 1986

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Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first commercial pressurized water reactor used for generating electricity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hyman G. Rickover has received more than 1,280,458 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hyman G. Rickover is the 1,492nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,366th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 858th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 1,492 out of 1,468. Before him are Dragan Vasiljković, Gérard Leman, Billy Bishop, Richard Bong, Billy Mitchell, and Frederick Browning. After him are Richmond K. Turner, Leo Phokas the Younger, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Harry Patch, and Natalya Kovshova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 214. Before him are Mikhail Lavrentyev, Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, Nicolas Hoydonckx, Spyridon Athanasopoulos, John C. Slater, and Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. After him are Natalio Perinetti, Pierre Braine, Mikel Koliqi, Elizabeth Goudge, Erna Berger, and Hermann Kesten. Among people deceased in 1986, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 180. Before him are Thad Jones, Ludwig Biermann, D. R. Kaprekar, Neerja Bhanot, Lothar Bolz, and Kunio Maekawa. After him are Floyd Gottfredson, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Vicente Trueba, Gerhard Rohlfs, Oleg Goncharenko, and Raymond Abellio.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 892 out of 1,454. Before him are Gustav Neumann (1838), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Helga Haase (1934), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Florian Ceynowa (1817), and Grażyna Szapołowska (1953). After him are Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Józef Oleksy (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Łukasz Fabiański (1985), Bogusław Linda (1952), and Zofia Posmysz (1923).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 68. Before him are Hermann Boehm (1884), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), John Shalikashvili (1936), and Walter Krueger (1881). After him are Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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