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Hyman G. Rickover

1900 - 1986

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Hyman G. Rickover (27 January 1900 – 8 July 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first commercial pressurized water reactor used for generating electricity. Rickover is also one of seven people who have been awarded two Congressional Gold Medals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hyman G. Rickover is the 1,787th most popular military personnel (down from 1,744th in 2019), the 1,003rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 940th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 1,787 out of 2,058. Before him are Felix Graf von Bothmer, Serhiy Shaptala, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Trần Văn Trà, and Samuel Ryan Curtis. After him are Kliment Boyadzhiev, Frederick Townsend Ward, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Marie Ljalková, Adolf Ehrnrooth, and Sigizmund Levanevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 235. Before him are Mikhail Lavrentyev, Émile Mercier, Irene Guest, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Taylor Caldwell, and Arthur Norris. After him are Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Bing Xin, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Hermann Kesten, and Colin Clive. Among people deceased in 1986, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 208. Before him are Sulo Bärlund, Volodymyr Pravyk, Willy Kaiser, Raymond Abellio, Jo Gartner, and Alicia Moreau de Justo. After him are Lothar Bolz, Paul Costello, Yasuzo Masumura, Anton Janda, Thad Jones, and Carlo Biagi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 1,003 out of 1,694. Before him are Jerzy Gorgoń (1949), Ludwig Traube (1818), Walter Leistikow (1865), Edward Babiuch (1927), Leon Kozłowski (1892), and Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1951). After him are Lothar Bolz (1903), Alexander Abusch (1902), Franz Mertens (1840), Stanisław Wielgus (1939), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), and Igor Newerly (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Hyman G. Rickover ranks 76. Before him are Erich Abraham (1895), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), Karl Decker (1897), and Maria Wittek (1899). After him are John Shalikashvili (1936), Walter Krueger (1881), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Johannes Block (1894), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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