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Nils Bohlin

1920 - 2002

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Nils Ivar Bohlin (17 July 1920 – 26 September 2002) was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Bohlin has received more than 194,330 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Bohlin is the 287th most popular inventor, the 577th most popular biography from Sweden and the 5th most popular Swedish Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nils Bohlin ranks 287 out of 426. Before him are Ralph Hartley, Prokop Diviš, George Devol, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Walter Zapp, and Jacob Perkins. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, and Jacob Ellehammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Nils Bohlin ranks 251. Before him are Eiji Okada, Julien Ries, Heleno de Freitas, Paul Mebus, Pierre Poujade, and Rudolf Kárpáti. After him are Anne-Cath. Vestly, Eddie Slovik, Jack Lord, Vera Ralston, Lydia Wideman, and Gabrielle Wittkop. Among people deceased in 2002, Nils Bohlin ranks 174. Before him are George Sidney, Lawrence Tierney, Stephen E. Ambrose, Francisco Coloane, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and R. M. Hare. After him are Kakhi Asatiani, Irán Eory, Said Belqola, Rudolf Augstein, Gabrielle Wittkop, and Morihiro Saito.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Bohlin ranks 577 out of 1,879. Before him are Nils Edén (1871), Sven Jonasson (1909), Moa Martinson (1890), Magnus Wislander (1964), Fredrik von Otter (1833), and Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743). After him are Lisa Fonssagrives (1911), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Gustaf Lundberg (1695), Dagmar Lange (1914), Ricky Bruch (1946), and Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Nils Bohlin ranks 5. Before him are John Ericsson (1803), Gideon Sundback (1880), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), and Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876). After him are Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Victor Hasselblad (1906), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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