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Arthur Scherbius

1878 - 1929

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Arthur Scherbius (30 October 1878 – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma. Scherbius offered unequalled opportunities and showed the importance of cryptography to both military and civil intelligence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Scherbius is the 71st most popular engineer (down from 49th in 2019), the 1,405th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,085th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Engineer.

Arthur Scherbius is most famous for inventing the Enigma Machine, which was used by the Nazis to encrypt messages.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Scherbius ranks 71 out of 389. Before him are Adam Czerniaków, Yuri Kondratyuk, Charles George Gordon, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Hidesaburō Ueno, and Jack Parsons. After him are Moshe Arens, Alexander Wienerberger, Viktor Belenko, Marcel Dassault, Walter Dornberger, and Józef Bem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Arthur Scherbius ranks 44. Before him are Elizabeth Arden, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Kōki Hirota, Yakov Yurovsky, and Marcel Grossmann. After him are Abdelaziz of Morocco, Georg Kaiser, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Stepan Shaumian, P. D. Ouspensky, and Léon Werth. Among people deceased in 1929, Arthur Scherbius ranks 35. Before him are Franz Rosenzweig, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Richard Réti, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, and Oldfield Thomas. After him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Rainis, Liang Qichao, Maurice Sarrail, Manuel Gomes da Costa, and Stepa Stepanović.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Scherbius ranks 1,405 out of 7,253. Before him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752). After him are Leopold Gmelin (1788), August Grisebach (1814), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), and Arnold van Gennep (1873).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Arthur Scherbius ranks 11. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), and Kurt Gerstein (1905). After him are Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Erich Topp (1914), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), and Claude Dornier (1884).

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