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Helmut Gröttrup

1916 - 1981

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Helmut Gröttrup (12 February 1916 – 4 July 1981) was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card. During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun. From 1946 to 1950 he headed a group of 170 German scientists who were forced to work for the Soviet rocketry program under Sergei Korolev. After returning to West Germany in December 1953, he developed data processing systems, contributed to early commercial applications of computer science and coined the German term "Informatik". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Gröttrup is the 211th most popular inventor (up from 214th in 2019), the 2,728th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,647th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Helmut Gröttrup ranks 211 out of 426. Before him are Reginald Fessenden, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Royal Rife, James Dyson, Édouard Branly, and Charles Xavier Thomas. After him are Lou Ottens, Yuan Longping, Ernst Alexanderson, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, David Schwarz, and Narcís Monturiol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Helmut Gröttrup ranks 105. Before him are Mercedes McCambridge, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Sangoulé Lamizana, Edmundo Suárez, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, and Forrest J Ackerman. After him are Ivo Lola Ribar, James B. Donovan, Ugo Locatelli, Walter Cronkite, Morris West, and Frank Parker. Among people deceased in 1981, Helmut Gröttrup ranks 93. Before him are Norman Taurog, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Nargis, Mohammad Beheshti, Mariama Bâ, and Edith Head. After him are Eraldo Monzeglio, Walter Heitler, Glauber Rocha, Paul Anspach, Victor Kugler, and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Gröttrup ranks 2,729 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Hilmar (1876), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), Kurt Schmitt (1886), and Adolf Mayer (1843). After him are Bernhard Windscheid (1817), Andreas Möller (1967), Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Johannes Werner (1468), Rudolf Peierls (1907), and Adolf Hühnlein (1881).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Helmut Gröttrup ranks 30. Before him are Artur Fischer (1919), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Max Skladanowsky (1863). After him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Oskar Barnack (1879), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Eugen Langen (1833), and Adolf Martens (1850).

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