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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 76,808 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Kober is the 143rd most popular linguist, the 6,742nd most popular biography from United States and the 16th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 46.36

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

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  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alice Kober ranks 143 out of 161Before her are Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Sylvain Lévi, Gerhard Rohlfs, Vladimir Toporov, and Charles F. Hockett. After her are Dell Hymes, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Jane Ellen Harrison, Gideon Toury, Friedrich von Adelung, and James Legge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alice Kober ranks 266Before her are Victor Hasselblad, Thelma Todd, Gerardo Romero, Alberto Soria, William Wilson Morgan, and Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj. After her are Branislav Sekulić, James Quinn, Lee Barnes, Eino Penttilä, Henry Roth, and Édouard Artigas. Among people deceased in 1950, Alice Kober ranks 140Before her are Ransom E. Olds, Joe Fry, Antonina Nezhdanova, Pedro Parages, Bainbridge Colby, and Arthur L. Newton. After her are Charles Bennett, Edwin Foster Coddington, Alexandros Diomidis, Louis Wilkins, Tommaso Costantino, and Dezső Földes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 6,742 out of 18,182Before her are Harvey S. Firestone (1868), George Jones (1931), Nils Lofgren (1951), SZA (1990), Zalman King (1941), and Kathy Najimy (1957). After her are James Worthy (1961), Jack LaLanne (1914), Bebe Neuwirth (1958), Nick Jonas (1992), Duane Eddy (1938), and Dolph Schayes (1928).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 16Before her are Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), and Charles F. Hockett (1916). After her are Dell Hymes (1927), Daniel Everett (1951), and Lyle Campbell (1942).