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Amar Bose

1929 - 2013

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Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amar Bose has received more than 2,205,898 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Amar Bose is the 365th most popular inventor (down from 333rd in 2019), the 8,268th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,084th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 45.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Amar Bose ranks 365 out of 426. Before him are George Stibitz, John Milne, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, and Andy Bechtolsheim. After him are William Friese-Greene, Lewis Howard Latimer, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, and Frank Piasecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Amar Bose ranks 426. Before him are Kazimir Hnatow, Manfred Kaiser, Carlos Torres, Marcelino dos Santos, Antonine Maillet, and Goffredo Parise. After him are Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, Vanja Blomberg, J. B. Lenoir, Givi Kartozia, Utpal Dutt, and Audun Boysen. Among people deceased in 2013, Amar Bose ranks 373. Before him are Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Cory Monteith, Nigel Davenport, Stanisław Nagy, Armen Alchian, and Abdul Quader Molla. After him are Arthur Wightman, Masae Kasai, Luis Ubiña, Ersilio Tonini, Regina Bianchi, and Bob Kurland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 8,268 out of 20,380. Before him are Bebe Rexha (1989), Erykah Badu (1971), Charles R. Knight (1874), ASAP Rocky (1988), Laverne Cox (1984), and Rick Warren (1954). After him are Teddy Pendergrass (1950), Emma Smith (1804), Marie Windsor (1919), Brad Renfro (1982), Gregory Chaitin (1947), and James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 97. Before him are Charles Darrow (1889), Jerry Lawson (1940), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), George Stibitz (1904), and Elizabeth Holmes (1984). After him are Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), and Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903).

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