Felix Wankel
Also known as Felix Heinrich Wankel
German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,734x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- 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
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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.
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1902 births1988 deaths20th-century German engineers20th-century German inventorsCommanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyDeutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund membersEngineers from Baden-WürttembergGerman prisoners of war in World War II held by FranceHitler Youth membersPeople from LahrPeople from the Grand Duchy of Baden