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Artur Fischer

1919 - 2016

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Artur Fischer (31 December 1919 – 27 January 2016) was a German inventor. He is best known for inventing an expanding plastic version of the wall plug. Born in Tumlingen, Artur Fischer was the son of the village tailor Georg Fischer. His mother Pauline, who ironed collars to make ends meet, recognized her son’s mechanical aptitude and encouraged him at every turn, helping him set up a workbench at home and buying him the German equivalent of an Erector Set. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Artur Fischer is the 179th most popular inventor (up from 216th in 2019), the 2,197th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,681st in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Artur Fischer ranks 179 out of 426. Before him are Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, Henrich Focke, and Émile Baudot. After him are Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, William Murdoch, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Artur Fischer ranks 94. Before him are Frederik Pohl, Marina Ginestà, Joop den Uyl, Ashraf Pahlavi, Ross Bagdasarian, and P. F. Strawson. After him are Janko Bobetko, Mario Bunge, Ernst Barkmann, Mad Mike Hoare, Raymond Smullyan, and Tomáš Špidlík. Among people deceased in 2016, Artur Fischer ranks 147. Before him are Tony Burton, Greg Lake, Ashraf Pahlavi, Wendell R. Anderson, Andrew Grove, and Péter Esterházy. After him are Gato Barbieri, Franco Citti, Oleg Popov, Fredrik Barth, Paulo Evaristo Arns, and Erich Rudorffer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 2,198 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Loritz (1895), Petra Kelly (1947), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), and Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746). After him are Katia Mann (1883), Katarina Witt (1965), Hermann Scherchen (1891), Karl Vogt (1817), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), and Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Artur Fischer ranks 24. Before him are Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), and Henrich Focke (1890). After him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), and Helmut Gröttrup (1916).

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