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Felix Wankel
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German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
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Felix Wankel (1902–1988) was a German inventor, engineer, and politician. Born in Lahr/Schwarzwald, he died in Heidelberg. He was a member of the Nazi Party, the Schutzstaffel, and the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund. Wankel received the Bavarian Order of Merit.
His work included the book *Rotary piston machines*. He is referenced by 43 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Rotary piston machines
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,063x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1902-08-13 ) 13 August 1902, Lahr , Grand Duchy of Baden , German Empire
- Died
- 9 October 1988 (1988-10-09) (aged 86), Heidelberg , Baden-Württemberg , West Germany
- Spouse
- Emma "Mi" Kirn
- Discipline
- Mechanical engineering
- Institutions
- Paki, Reich Air Ministry , Goetze AG , NSU , Wankel GmbH
- Projects
- Wankel engine
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Felix Heinrich Wankel ( German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvaŋkl̩]; 13 August 1902 – 9 October 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominent member of the Nazi Party.
Early life
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