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Georges Claude

1870 - 1960

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Georges Claude (24 September 1870 – 23 May 1960) was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". The Claude process for manufacturing ammonia was named for him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Claude is the 199th most popular inventor (down from 180th in 2019), the 2,555th most popular biography from France (down from 2,289th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Georges Claude ranks 199 out of 426. Before him are Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, Garrett Morgan, and J. Presper Eckert. After him are Eunice Newton Foote, Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, and Reginald Fessenden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Georges Claude ranks 75. Before him are Vladimir Purishkevich, Géza Maróczy, Leonid Krasin, Saki, Conrad Böcker, and Amadeo Giannini. After him are Emil Orlík, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Kitaro Nishida, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Enric Prat de la Riba, and Ignacio Zuloaga. Among people deceased in 1960, Georges Claude ranks 68. Before him are Edwin Fischer, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bruno Loerzer, The Great Gama, Hans Wilsdorf, and Leonard Woolley. After him are Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Noël Bas, and Jules Supervielle.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Claude ranks 2,555 out of 6,770. Before him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti (1695), Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803), Bérenger Saunière (1852), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), and Élisabeth Borne (1961). After him are Walter of Châtillon (1135), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Antoine François Marmontel (1816), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Laurent Fignon (1960), and Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (1701).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Georges Claude ranks 27. Before him are Louis Le Prince (1841), Henri Giffard (1825), Joseph Monier (1823), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), and Émile Baudot (1845). After him are Édouard Branly (1844), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Wan Hu (1510), Georges Hébert (1875), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), and Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815).

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