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Paul Cornu

1881 - 1944

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Paul Cornu (French pronunciation: [pɔl kɔʁny]; 15 June 1881 – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Cornu has received more than 96,661 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Paul Cornu is the 67th most popular engineer, the 1,484th most popular biography from France (up from 1,513th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 97k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Paul Cornu ranks 67 out of 389. Before him are Banū Mūsā, Valentin Glushko, Kurt Gerstein, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Hans Kammler, and Walter Dornberger. After him are Jimmy Doolittle, Marcel Dassault, Colin Chapman, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Su Song, and Adam Czerniaków.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Paul Cornu ranks 53. Before him are Giovanni Papini, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Franz Gürtner, Victor Klemperer, Hugo Meisl, and P. G. Wodehouse. After him are Eugène Schueller, L. E. J. Brouwer, Vincenzo Lancia, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Vincenzo Peruggia, and Cecil B. DeMille. Among people deceased in 1944, Paul Cornu ranks 76. Before him are Cécile Chaminade, Yvette Guilbert, Missak Manouchian, Paul Poiret, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, and Friedrich Dollmann. After him are Milan Hodža, Jakob von Uexküll, James McKeen Cattell, Viktor Ullmann, E. M. Antoniadi, and Vera Menchik.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Cornu ranks 1,484 out of 6,770. Before him are Austen Henry Layard (1817), Jacques Charrier (1936), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Dominique Sanda (1948), Édouard Stephan (1837), and Pierre Duhem (1861). After him are Gaston, Count of Eu (1842), Jacques Becker (1906), Maurice Barrès (1862), Michel Verne (1861), Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (1337), and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia (1909).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Paul Cornu ranks 6. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), and Villard de Honnecourt (1200). After him are Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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