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Stephen Timoshenko

1878 - 1972

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Stepan Prokopovich Timoshenko (Ukrainian: Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, romanized: Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; Russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, romanized: Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko; December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1878 – May 29, 1972), later known as Stephen Timoshenko, was an ethnic Ukrainian, citizen of the Russian Empire and later, an American engineer and academician. He is considered to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. An inventor and one of the pioneering mechanical engineers at the St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Timoshenko has received more than 280,903 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Stephen Timoshenko is the 107th most popular engineer (down from 88th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 211th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stephen Timoshenkos by language

Over the past year Stephen Timoshenko has had the most page views in the with 27,172 views, followed by Russian (9,783), and Ukrainian (7,919). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (446.46%), Malagasy (120.48%), and Piedmontese (86.78%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Stephen Timoshenko ranks 107 out of 389. Before him are Harry Nyquist, Viktor Kaplan, Adrian Newey, Henry Darcy, Eupalinos, and Carlo Abarth. After him are Yevgeny Dragunov, Robert Stephenson, Pierre Clostermann, John Bagot Glubb, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Stephen Timoshenko ranks 65. Before him are Alfréd Hajós, Jack Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Hartley, C. Rajagopalachari, and Paul Troost. After him are Walter Heitz, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, Maurice René Fréchet, José Miaja, and Alexander Tamanian. Among people deceased in 1972, Stephen Timoshenko ranks 74. Before him are Ettore Bastico, Alejandra Pizarnik, Frans Masereel, Harlow Shapley, Paul Goodman, and C. Rajagopalachari. After him are Viktor Barna, Watchman Nee, William Dieterle, Jo Bonnier, C. W. Ceram, and Ernst von Salomon.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stephen Timoshenko ranks 279 out of 1,365. Before him are Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Denys Shmyhal (1975), and Sergei Winogradsky (1856). After him are Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Efim Geller (1925), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), and Irina Press (1939).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Stephen Timoshenko ranks 4. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906), Valentin Glushko (1908), and Yuri Kondratyuk (1897). After him are Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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