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Jack Northrop

1895 - 1981

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John Knudsen Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939. His career began in 1916 as a draftsman for Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923 and worked on the Douglas World Cruiser, where in time he became a project engineer. In 1927 he joined the Lockheed Corporation, where he was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Northrop is the 329th most popular inventor (down from 310th in 2019), the 7,251st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,047th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jack Northrop ranks 329 out of 426. Before him are Ottmar Mergenthaler, Jacob Ellehammer, Jozef Murgaš, Georges Beuchat, William Justin Kroll, and Peter Carl Goldmark. After him are Hannibal Goodwin, An Wang, Victor Hasselblad, John Philip Holland, Joseph Engelberger, and Roland Moreno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Jack Northrop ranks 229. Before him are Jan Burgers, Andreo Cseh, Ben Sharpsteen, Ion Barbu, Béla Illés, and André Gaboriaud. After him are Ali Mansur, Olga Spessivtseva, Ernie Collett, Norman Ross, Andreas Alföldi, and Greta Johansson. Among people deceased in 1981, Jack Northrop ranks 189. Before him are Stanisław Mazur, Werner Teske, Cláudio Coutinho, Hoagy Carmichael, Antero Kivi, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. After him are Andreas Alföldi, Hermann Pilnik, Curtis Bernhardt, Zoya Fyodorova, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, and Nils Asther.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Northrop ranks 7,253 out of 20,380. Before him are Chad Stahelski (1968), Dale Dye (1944), Fats Navarro (1923), Rose Cleveland (1846), Jonathan Carroll (1949), and Reggie Miller (1965). After him are Nancy Olson (1928), Roy Eldridge (1911), Frank James (1843), J. E. Freeman (1946), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), and Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jack Northrop ranks 84. Before him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Marion Donovan (1917), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), and George Devol (1912). After him are Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Henry M. Leland (1843), John Fitch (1743), and Dan Bricklin (1951).

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