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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Articles with short description, 1990 deaths, 20th-century Swiss inventors, 1907 births, Swiss electrical engineers
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George de Mestral  de Mestral  Georges de Mestral
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George de Mestral was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook and loop fastener which he named Velcro. Wikipedia
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George de Mestral was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook and loop fastener which he named Velcro. Wikipedia
Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of the Velcro fabric fastener Wikipedia Disambiguation
Electrical engineer Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
National Inventors Hall of Fame
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Switzerland
EDUCATED AT
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
FIELD OF WORK
technology
GIVEN NAME
George
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
French
OCCUPATION
engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges
PLACE OF DEATH
Commugny
SEX OR GENDER
male
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George de Mestral
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George de Mestral
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de Mestral, George De Mestral, George de mestral, Georges de Mestral

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