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Alice Kober

1906 - 1950

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Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Kober has received more than 86,728 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alice Kober is the 194th most popular linguist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 9,699th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,728th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 87k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alice Kober ranks 194 out of 214. Before her are Gideon Toury, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Viktor Vinogradov, Sture Allén, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Milena Hübschmannová. After her are Georg Bühler, Robert Blust, Lyle Campbell, Dmitry Ushakov, Bo Ralph, and Rogier Blokland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alice Kober ranks 380. Before her are Franco Comotti, Bengt Edlén, Vilmos Zombori, Pál Teleki, Toni Ulmen, and George Lott. After her are Raúl Anganuzzi, Károly Weichelt, Diana Wynyard, Guglielmo Segato, Hans Haas, and Romildo Etcheverry. Among people deceased in 1950, Alice Kober ranks 178. Before her are Jaroslav Kvapil, Marguerite De La Motte, Peter Kemp, Enrico Mizzi, Hubert Stevens, and Horace Rice. After her are Giuseppe Crivelli, Joseph Stadler, Lesley Ashburner, Sid Grauman, Monty Banks, and Louis Wilkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 9,699 out of 20,380. Before her are Brad Wilk (1968), Stanley Wagner (1908), Dan Dailey (1915), Sinbad (1956), Lil' Kim (1974), and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927). After her are Cherie Currie (1959), George Caleb Bingham (1811), Dyanna Lauren (1965), Horatio Parker (1863), Roger Allers (1949), and Alfred Lunt (1892).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 19. Before her are William Stokoe (1919), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), George Perkins Marsh (1801), and Dell Hymes (1927). After her are Robert Blust (1940), Lyle Campbell (1942), Daniel Everett (1951), Einar Haugen (1906), and Mary Haas (1910).

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