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Jack Northrop

1895 - 1981

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John Knudsen Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939. His career began in 1916 as a draftsman for Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923, where in time he became a project engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Northrop has received more than 382,391 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Northrop is the 283rd most popular inventor (up from 284th in 2019), the 5,189th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,201st in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 15

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jack Northrop ranks 283 out of 354. Before him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Paul von Jankó, John Wilkinson, Thomas Wedgwood, Ivan Kulibin, and André Blondel. After him are Rostislav Alexeyev, Wilson Greatbatch, Rowland Hill, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ralph Hartley, and Tabitha Babbitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Jack Northrop ranks 175. Before him are Walter Bedell Smith, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Plínio Salgado, John Diefenbaker, August Emil Fieldorf, and Liane Haid. After him are Georg Muche, Giovanni Brunero, Gabriel Chevallier, José Díaz, Julijans Vaivods, and Louis Calhern. Among people deceased in 1981, Jack Northrop ranks 135. Before him are Jaap Bakema, Aleksandra Beļcova, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Mike Bloomfield, Jack Albertson, and François Bordes. After him are Ivan Galamian, Juan Trippe, Elemér Kocsis, Paco Bienzobas, Hoagy Carmichael, and Francis Hunter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Northrop ranks 5,189 out of 18,182. Before him are Ron Woodroof (1950), Rita Coolidge (1945), George Murdock (1897), Scott Columbus (1956), Antoine Fuqua (1966), and Charles Kittel (1916). After him are Carl Scarborough (1914), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Eugene Parker (1927), Scott LaFaro (1936), Dennis Dugan (1946), and Jennifer Esposito (1973).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jack Northrop ranks 69. Before him are Michael S. Hart (1947), Robert Metcalfe (1946), David Bushnell (1742), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), and Edward Lawry Norton (1898). After him are Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), and Henry J. Kaiser (1882).

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