INVENTOR

Kamil Tolon

1912 - 1978

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Kamil Özdemir Tolon (29 February 1912 – 23 July 1978) was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul. He had his secondary and university education in Ankara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kamil Tolon has received more than 23,772 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kamil Tolon is the 405th most popular inventor (down from 344th in 2019), the 1,122nd most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 1,066th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Inventor.

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  • 41.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kamil Tolon ranks 405 out of 426. Before him are John Whitehurst, Arnold Orville Beckman, Peter Cooper, Arthur Fry, Charles F. Kettering, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky. After him are Richard Pearse, Roger C. Field, Clarence Birdseye, Charles Ammi Cutter, Lawrence Hargrave, and John F. Seitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kamil Tolon ranks 395. Before him are Helmut Hamann, June Havoc, Leopold Wohlrab, Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, Friedrich Maurer, and Horace Gwynne. After him are Hilda Cameron, Tip O'Neill, Richard Carlson, Erland Herkenrath, Madge Adam, and Danny Thomas. Among people deceased in 1978, Kamil Tolon ranks 258. Before him are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Rudolf Schoeller, James Daly, Jiří Skobla, Larry Young, and Tom Wilson. After him are Valerian Gracias, George Newberry, Károly Levitzky, Ray Noble, Gertrude Mary Cox, and Selwyn Lloyd.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kamil Tolon ranks 1,122 out of 1,347. Before him are Aytaç Yalman (1940), Sırrı Süreyya Önder (1962), Özgü Namal (1978), Birce Akalay (1984), Burak Deniz (1991), and Tuncay Şanlı (1982). After him are Mustafa Şentop (1968), Hami Mandıralı (1968), Arif Erdem (1972), Mehmet Kurtuluş (1972), Mehmet Topal (1986), and Gökdeniz Karadeniz (1980).

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Among INVENTORS In Türkiye

Among inventors born in Türkiye, Kamil Tolon ranks 1. 

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