The Most Famous
INVENTORS from Luxembourg
This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 426 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 40th most number of Inventors behind Georgia, and Denmark.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Inventors of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. William Justin Kroll (1889 - 1973)
With an HPI of 56.14, William Justin Kroll is the most famous Luxembourger Inventor. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
William Justin Kroll (; born Guillaume Justin Kroll, Luxembourgish: [kʀol]; November 24, 1889 – March 30, 1973) was a Luxembourgish metallurgist, born in Esch-sur-Alzette. He is best known for inventing the Kroll process in 1940, which is used commercially to extract metallic titanium from ore.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Luxembourger inventors born between 1889 and 1889. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger inventors include William Justin Kroll.
