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George Washington

1871 - 1946

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George Constant Louis Washington[I] (May 20, 1871 – March 29, 1946) was a Belgian-British inventor and businessman. He is best remembered for his improvement of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the G. Washington Coffee Company. An emigrant from his native Belgium, he arrived in the New York area in 1897. He dabbled in several technical fields before hitting upon manufacturing an adapted version of the nascent instant coffee, during a sojourn in Central America in 1906 or 1907. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Washington is the 232nd most popular inventor (down from 217th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 356th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belgian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Washington ranks 232 out of 426. Before him are Hubert Cecil Booth, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Laurens Hammond, Thonmi Sambhota, and Rodolphe Lindt. After him are Pavel Yablochkov, Fritz von Opel, John Wesley Hyatt, Aurel Stodola, Philo Farnsworth, and Tivadar Puskás.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, George Washington ranks 91. Before him are Ahatanhel Krymsky, Arthur Griffith, Kiyoshi Shiga, Gyula Kellner, Saint-George Ashe, and Gyula Károlyi. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Joe Roberts, Nils Edén, Abanindranath Tagore, Alexander Spendiaryan, and Segundo de Chomón. Among people deceased in 1946, George Washington ranks 111. Before him are Madan Mohan Malaviya, William Joyce, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Charles Despiau, Heinrich George, and Matteo Bartoli. After him are Grigory Neujmin, Noah Beery, Leopold Okulicki, Jenny Nyström, Dion Fortune, and Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 409 out of 1,190. Before him are Gaston Roelants (1937), Julien Ries (1920), Adrien-François Servais (1807), Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1500), David Vinckboons (1576), and Briek Schotte (1919). After him are Jean-Marc Bosman (1964), Erik De Vlaeminck (1945), Paul de Man (1919), Marie Popelin (1846), Herman Van Springel (1943), and Joos de Momper (1564).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, George Washington ranks 7. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Paul Otlet (1868), Zénobe Gramme (1826), and Robert Cailliau (1947).

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