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Uziel Gal

1923 - 2002

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Uziel "Uzi" Gal (Hebrew: עוזיאל "עוזי" גל, born Gotthard Glas; 15 December 1923 – 7 September 2002) was a German-born Israeli firearm designer who invented and became the eponym of the Uzi submachine gun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uziel Gal has received more than 435,145 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Uziel Gal is the 147th most popular inventor (up from 159th in 2019), the 1,747th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,867th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Inventor.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Uziel Gal ranks 147 out of 426. Before him are Georg Luger, John Kay, Sequoyah, Charles Algernon Parsons, Robert Stirling, and Elias Howe. After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Viktor Schauberger, Bob Kahn, Jang Yeong-sil, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Alfred Vail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Uziel Gal ranks 91. Before him are Valentina Cortese, André Gorz, Richard Pipes, Yaşar Kemal, Uri Avnery, and Rudolph A. Marcus. After him are Bettie Page, Otfried Preußler, Masao Ono, Sergey Akhromeyev, Ernst Nolte, and Yves Bonnefoy. Among people deceased in 2002, Uziel Gal ranks 76. Before him are John Entwistle, Velibor Vasović, Geraldine of Albania, François Périer, Sohn Kee-chung, and Yousuf Karsh. After him are Choi Hong Hi, Alexander Lebed, Pierre Werner, George Roy Hill, Marina Berti, and Kim Hunter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uziel Gal ranks 1,747 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Oliver (1972), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), Klaus Fischer (1949), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825). After him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), and Gretl Braun (1915).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Uziel Gal ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Alfred Krupp (1812), Theobald Boehm (1794), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), and Hugo Schmeisser (1884). After him are Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), and Henrich Focke (1890).

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