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Umberto Nobile

1885 - 1978

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Umberto Nobile (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈnɔːbile]; 21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Nobile also designed and flew the Italia, a second polar airship; this second expedition ended in a deadly crash and provoked an international rescue effort, some participants of which also lost their lives or went missing and presumed dead. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Umberto Nobile is the 17th most popular engineer (down from 11th in 2019), the 672nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 451st in 2019) and the most popular Italian Engineer.

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Among engineers, Umberto Nobile ranks 17 out of 389. Before him are Alexei Kosygin, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, José Echegaray, Sergei Korolev, André Citroën, and Otto Lilienthal. After him are Fritz Todt, Anatoly Dyatlov, Jack Kilby, Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Umberto Nobile ranks 21. Before him are Hugo Boss, Robert Delaunay, George de Hevesy, Karen Horney, André Maurois, and Ernst Bloch. After him are Ernst Busch, Heinrich Hoffmann, Mikhail Frunze, Heinrich Brüning, Vladimir Tatlin, and Chester W. Nimitz. Among people deceased in 1978, Umberto Nobile ranks 20. Before him are Ramón Mercader, Adolf Dassler, Vincent du Vigneaud, Jack L. Warner, Anastas Mikoyan, and Ricardo Zamora. After him are Margaret Mead, John Cazale, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Kurt Student, Ronnie Peterson, and Willy Messerschmitt.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Umberto Nobile ranks 672 out of 5,161. Before him are Giulio Romano (1499), Pope Severinus (600), Ettore Bugatti (1881), Pope Stephen V (850), Pierluigi Collina (1960), and Giorgio Moroder (1940). After him are Frank Capra (1897), Paul the Deacon (720), Aldus Manutius (1449), Arrigo Sacchi (1946), Bianca Maria Sforza (1472), and Maria Theresa of Austria (1767).

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Among ENGINEERS In Italy

Among engineers born in Italy, Umberto Nobile ranks 1. After him are Marcello Gandini (1938), Nicola Romeo (1876), Guenther Steiner (1965), Flaminio Bertoni (1903), Giuseppe Colombo (1920), Riccardo Morandi (1902), Enrico Forlanini (1848), Gioacchino Colombo (1903), and Aldo Costa (1961).

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