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Joseph Strauss

1870 - 1938

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Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was a German-American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Strauss has received more than 24,504 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Strauss is the 148th most popular engineer (up from 184th in 2019), the 3,176th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,043rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Joseph Strauss ranks 148 out of 389. Before him are Franz Reuleaux, Li Kui, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Kerim Kerimov, Alec Issigonis, and Yahya Ayyash. After him are Georgy Babakin, William Playfair, Mikhail Yangel, Alexei Tupolev, Mstislav Keldysh, and Adolphe Alphand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Joseph Strauss ranks 77. Before him are Reginald Lee, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Masabumi Hosono, Géza Maróczy, and Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. After him are Ada Negri, Osachi Hamaguchi, Hilaire Belloc, Peter Struve, Dirk Jan de Geer, and Enric Prat de la Riba. Among people deceased in 1938, Joseph Strauss ranks 99. Before him are King Oliver, Frigyes Karinthy, John Flanagan, Émile Cohl, Otto Warburg, and Axel Ljung. After him are Kazimierz Twardowski, Boris Pilnyak, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Andrei Bubnov, E. C. Segar, and Egon Friedell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Strauss ranks 3,176 out of 20,380. Before him are Anthony Edwards (1962), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Artie Shaw (1910), Richard Hamming (1915), Lesley Gore (1946), and Marlena Shaw (1939). After him are Ron Kovic (1946), Tallulah Bankhead (1902), Sally Ride (1951), Tatum O'Neal (1963), Alex North (1910), and Chris Sarandon (1942).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Joseph Strauss ranks 11. Before him are Vannevar Bush (1890), Henry Gantt (1861), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), and J. Walter Christie (1865). After him are Eugene Stoner (1922), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), and Seymour Cray (1925).

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