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Johan August Brinell

1849 - 1925

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August Brinell (10 October 1849 – 17 November 1925) was a Swedish metallurgical engineer. Brinell is noted as the creator of a method for quantifying the surface hardness of materials, now known as the Brinell hardness test. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan August Brinell has received more than 24,111 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Johan August Brinell is the 134th most popular engineer (down from 129th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Johan August Brinell ranks 134 out of 323. Before him are Aurel Vlaicu, Gustave Whitehead, Carlo Abarth, Alexander Lippisch, Vitaly Abalakov, and Herman Potočnik. After him are Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Eduard Totleben, J. Walter Christie, Alexey Sudayev, Georgy Shpagin, and Eugene Stoner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Johan August Brinell ranks 48. Before him are Dersu Uzala, Eugène Carrière, Herbert von Bismarck, William Osler, Emile Claus, and Karl Brugmann. After him are Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, William Ernest Henley, Benjamin Godard, and Fritz Mauthner. Among people deceased in 1925, Johan August Brinell ranks 64. Before him are Anna Schäffer, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Thomas R. Marshall, Princess Françoise of Orléans, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, and Sheikh Said. After him are Louis Feuillade, Myer Prinstein, Stefan Żeromski, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Nikolai Golitsyn, and Aristide Bruant.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Johan August Brinell ranks 319 out of 1,612. Before him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna (1831), Monica Zetterlund (1937), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Gustav Trolle (1488), Kurt Atterberg (1887), and Lars Lagerbäck (1948). After him are Avicii (1989), Sixten Jernberg (1929), Eli Heckscher (1879), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Sven Tumba (1931), and Bertil Lindblad (1895).

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Among ENGINEERS In Sweden

Among engineers born in Sweden, Johan August Brinell ranks 5. Before him are Lennart Torstensson (1603), Gustaf de Laval (1845), Harry Nyquist (1889), and Erik Dahlbergh (1625).

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