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André Waterkeyn

1917 - 2005

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André Waterkeyn (23 August 1917 – 4 October 2005) was a Belgian engineer, born in Wimbledon, London, best known for creating the Atomium. Waterkeyn was the economic director of Fabrimetal (now Agoria), a federation of metallurgical companies when in 1954 he was asked to design a building for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58) that would symbolise Belgian engineering skills. Waterkeyn owned the copyrights of all reproductions of the Atomium until he passed it over to the organisation owning the original building around the year 2000. He was chairman of the board of the Atomium until 2002, when his son took over. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Waterkeyn is the 217th most popular engineer (down from 215th in 2019), the 2,894th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,497th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, André Waterkeyn ranks 217 out of 389. Before him are Émile Levassor, Vladimir Petlyakov, Michel Chevalier, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Semyon Lavochkin, and Charles Renard. After him are Harvey Postlethwaite, Eugen Sänger, Menno van Coehoorn, Gene Kranz, Mikhail Koshkin, and Robert Mallet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, André Waterkeyn ranks 178. Before him are Mouloud Mammeri, Bertil Nordahl, Lena Horne, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Red Auerbach, and Musine Kokalari. After him are Zainab al Ghazali, Jean Lucas, Betty Holberton, William P. Gottlieb, Otto Glória, and Domenico Bartolucci. Among people deceased in 2005, André Waterkeyn ranks 163. Before him are Laurel Aitken, Kevin Hagen, Rong Yiren, Philip Morrison, Milorad Pavić, and Milena Hübschmannová. After him are Hans Clarin, Saunders Mac Lane, Zainab al Ghazali, Jesús Moncada, Charles David Keeling, and Piero Cappuccilli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 2,895 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlie Hunnam (1980), Terence Fisher (1904), Ernest Starling (1866), Hubert Parry (1848), Richard Norman Shaw (1831), and Andrew Latimer (1949). After him are Edmund Leach (1910), Poppy Morgan (1983), Harriet Walter (1950), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), and Charles Barry (1795).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, André Waterkeyn ranks 23. Before him are John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Scott Russell (1808), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Hughes (1814), John Smeaton (1724), and William Playfair (1759). After him are Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Ron Tauranac (1925).

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