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Walter Thiel

1910 - 1943

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Walter Thiel (3 March 1910, Breslau – 17 August 1943, Karlshagen, near Peenemünde) was a German rocket scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Thiel has received more than 80,367 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Thiel is the 250th most popular engineer (down from 229th in 2019), the 869th most popular biography from Poland (down from 804th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Walter Thiels by language

Over the past year Walter Thiel has had the most page views in the with 9,849 views, followed by German (4,133), and Russian (1,926). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (108.16%), Latvian (47.79%), and Finnish (31.77%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Walter Thiel ranks 250 out of 389. Before him are Konstantin Kalinin, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Jon Postel, Hans Moravec, Paul Mauser, and Wilhelm Nusselt. After him are Waloddi Weibull, Pierre Cérésole, Johannes Winkler, René Panhard, Oskar von Miller, and Eugène Flachat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Walter Thiel ranks 217. Before him are Jutta Rüdiger, Vivien Thomas, Carlo Ceresoli, Ma Zhongying, Robert Cummings, and Saint Alphonsa. After him are Carlos Marcello, Charles Crichton, Robert Buron, Edmund Leach, Donald Watson, and Delfín Benítez Cáceres. Among people deceased in 1943, Walter Thiel ranks 144. Before him are Dora Gerson, Kristjan Raud, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Damrong Rajanubhab, Charley Paddock, and Heinrich Zimmer. After him are Eugeniusz Bodo, Lucien Démanet, Rihard Jakopič, Ruth Belville, Estella Agsteribbe, and Adolf Urban.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 869 out of 1,694. Before him are Jurek Becker (1937), Henryk Sławik (1894), Ignacy Potocki (1750), Martin Rathke (1793), Stanislaus Papczyński (1631), and Paul Gordan (1837). After him are Janusz Gortat (1948), Klaus Hänsch (1938), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 8. Before him are Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), and Konstantin Kalinin (1887). After him are Johannes Winkler (1897), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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