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Alexandre Alexeieff

1901 - 1982

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Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff (Russian: Александр Александрович Алексеев; 18 April 1901 – 9 August 1982) was a Russian-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris. He and his second wife Claire Parker (1906–1981) are credited with inventing the pinscreen as well as the animation technique totalization. In all Alexeieff produced 6 films on the pinscreen, 41 advertising films and illustrated 41 books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Alexeieff is the 269th most popular inventor (up from 292nd in 2019), the 1,297th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,498th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alexandre Alexeieff ranks 269 out of 426. Before him are Angelo Moriondo, Walter Zapp, Gerald Bull, Ray Dolby, Henri Fabre, and Louis Lumière. After him are John Barnard, Colin Archer, Léon Gaumont, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Jacob W. Davis, and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Alexandre Alexeieff ranks 180. Before him are Henri Sauguet, Alberto Hurtado, Hans Erich Nossack, Elias Katz, Aurora Mardiganian, and Ivan Pyryev. After him are Zeppo Marx, Mercedes Comaposada, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Clyde Geronimi, Francisco Guilledo, and Claude Aveline. Among people deceased in 1982, Alexandre Alexeieff ranks 145. Before him are Gunnar Eriksson, Alma Reville, Alberto Cavalcanti, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Christian Schad, and Fritz Laband. After him are Olle Hellbom, Leonid Utyosov, Karol Borsuk, Hubert Lanz, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, and Juhan Aavik.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandre Alexeieff ranks 1,297 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Cherkasov (1903), Kirill Lavrov (1925), Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (1507), and Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881). After him are Endel Puusepp (1909), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Alexander Kutepov (1882), Jürgen Moser (1928), and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Alexandre Alexeieff ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), and Pavel Yablochkov (1847). After him are Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), and Ivan Polzunov (1728).

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