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Alexander Imich

1903 - 2014

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Alexander Herbert Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family. Imich, a supercentenarian, also became the oldest living man at age 111 after the death of almost 112-year-old Arturo Licata, of Italy, on April 24, 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Imich has received more than 121,267 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander Imich is the 2,174th most popular writer (down from 1,767th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Poland (down from 376th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Incredible tales of the paranormal
Philosophy
Provides an overview of psychokinetic phenomena experienced in the world to date. The text includes contributions from people who have had experience of such paranormal and unexplained psychic phenomena.
1995
Incredible Tales of the Paranormal
Philosophy
Provides an overview of psychokinetic phenomena experienced in the world to date. The text includes contributions from people who have had experience of such paranormal and unexplained psychic phenomena.
1995

Page views of Alexander Imiches by language

Over the past year Alexander Imich has had the most page views in the with 9,902 views, followed by Chinese (3,794), and Russian (3,263). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (96.53%), Chinese (67.95%), and Latin (66.09%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Imich ranks 2,174 out of 7,302. Before him are William of Moerbeke, Auguste Maquet, Nelson Algren, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Antimachus, and Herman Bang. After him are S. S. Van Dine, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Apollonius Dyscolus, Dagny Juel, Jacques Futrelle, and Erich Mühsam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Alexander Imich ranks 109. Before him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Michail Stasinopoulos, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Nikolay Krylov, and Nikolai Voznesensky. After him are Adelbert Schulz, Frank P. Ramsey, Kea Bouman, Richard Thomalla, Arpad Elo, and Yeshayahu Leibowitz. Among people deceased in 2014, Alexander Imich ranks 126. Before him are Alicia Rhett, Tommy Ramone, Andrea de Cesaris, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Francisco Gabica, and Marie Dubois. After him are Peter Sculthorpe, Cristina Deutekom, Karlheinz Deschner, Gloria Leonard, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and Lorna Wing.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexander Imich ranks 494 out of 1,694. Before him are Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Henryk Kasperczak (1946), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Wilhelm Brasse (1917), and Elisabeth Becker (1923). After him are Marek Grechuta (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Piotr Skarga (1536), and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Alexander Imich ranks 47. Before him are Julian Tuwim (1894), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Sholem Asch (1880), and Stefania Wilczyńska (1886). After him are Piotr Skarga (1536), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), George Adamski (1891), and Stefan Żeromski (1864).

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