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Nils Bohlin

1920 - 2002

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Nils Ivar Bohlin (17 July 1920 – 26 September 2002) was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Bohlin is the 319th most popular inventor (down from 287th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 577th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nils Bohlin ranks 319 out of 426. Before him are Whitcomb L. Judson, Rostislav Alexeyev, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Almon Brown Strowger, Walter Bruch, and John Shepherd-Barron. After him are Didi Senft, Alexander P. de Seversky, George Devol, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Jacob Ellehammer, and Jozef Murgaš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Nils Bohlin ranks 293. Before him are Nobuyuki Kato, Georges Balandier, Nida Senff, Jack Lord, Ehsan Yarshater, and Musa Anter. After him are Gordon Gould, Fernando Riera, Liam Cosgrave, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Carlo Monti, and Jacques Noël. Among people deceased in 2002, Nils Bohlin ranks 215. Before him are Georges Beaucourt, Kaisa Parviainen, Raymond Firth, Oskar Sala, Francisco Cabañas, and Leopold Vietoris. After him are Richard Helms, Ruth Williams Khama, Eddie Meduza, Milton Berle, Norihito, Prince Takamado, and Michel Boisrond.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Bohlin ranks 708 out of 1,879. Before him are Henry Carlsson (1917), Jenny Berggren (1972), Erik Malmberg (1897), Gunnar Fischer (1910), Ewa Aulin (1950), and Gerard De Geer (1858). After him are Gustaf Jansson (1922), Mikael Håfström (1960), Charles John Andersson (1827), Gustav Wetterström (1911), Neneh Cherry (1964), and Oscar Dickson (1823).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, Nils Bohlin ranks 5. Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880), John Ericsson (1803), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), and Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846). After him are Victor Hasselblad (1906), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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