1863 - 1914
Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the founders of Alcoa, along with Alfred E. Hunt; Hunt's partner at the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; Hunt's chief chemist, W. S. Sample; Howard Lash, head of the Carbon Steel Company; Millard Hunsiker, sales manager for the Carbon Steel Company; and Robert Scott, a mill superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Martin Hall has received more than 223,852 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles Martin Hall is the 160th most popular inventor (up from 167th in 2019), the 2,357th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,367th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Inventor.
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Among inventors, Charles Martin Hall ranks 160 out of 354. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Sequoyah, Christopher Latham Sholes, Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, and Uziel Gal. After him are Guillaume Amontons, Orban, Robert Cailliau, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, and Charles Cros.
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 154
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 155
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 156
1926 - 2011
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 157
1823 - 1906
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 158
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 159
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 160
1663 - 1705
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 161
1404 - 1453
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 162
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 163
1890 - 1954
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 164
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 165
1842 - 1888
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 166
Among people born in 1863, Charles Martin Hall ranks 53. Before him are Paul Painlevé, Abdul Karim, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Annie Jump Cannon, Arthur Machen, and Alexander Siloti. After him are Paul Drude, Hermann Bahr, Émile Friant, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, and Gabriel Pierné. Among people deceased in 1914, Charles Martin Hall ranks 38. Before him are Christian Morgenstern, Anatoly Lyadov, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Giuseppe Mercalli, and Jurji Zaydan. After him are Julio Argentino Roca, Theodor Lipps, Louis Couturat, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, George William Hill, and John Muir.
1863 - 1933
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 47
1863 - 1909
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 48
1863 - 1929
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 49
1863 - 1941
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 50
1863 - 1947
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 51
1863 - 1945
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 52
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 53
1863 - 1906
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 54
1863 - 1934
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 55
1863 - 1932
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 56
1863 - 1924
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 57
1863 - 1931
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 58
1863 - 1937
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 59
1871 - 1914
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 32
1855 - 1914
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 33
1826 - 1914
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 34
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 35
1850 - 1914
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 36
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 37
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 38
1843 - 1914
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 39
1851 - 1914
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 40
1868 - 1914
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 41
1827 - 1914
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 42
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 43
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 44
Among people born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 2,357 out of 18,182. Before him are Daniel Stern (1957), Grace Moore (1898), Harry Nilsson (1941), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Karen Carpenter (1950), and Robert F. Engle (1942). After him are Van Cliburn (1934), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), Don Taylor (1920), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Miguel Ferrer (1955), and Holly Hunter (1958).
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 2,351
1898 - 1947
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 2,352
1941 - 1994
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 2,353
1925 - 2020
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 2,354
1950 - 1983
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 2,355
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 2,356
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 2,357
1934 - 2013
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 2,358
1877 - 1960
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 2,359
1920 - 1998
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 2,360
1915 - 1990
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 2,361
1955 - 2017
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 2,362
1958 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 2,363
Among inventors born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 38. Before him are Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred Vail (1807), Mary Anderson (1862), Hiram Maxim (1840), Sequoyah (1770), and Christopher Latham Sholes (1819). After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), Royal Rife (1888), and J. Presper Eckert (1919).
1798 - 1874
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 32
1807 - 1859
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 33
1862 - 1953
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 34
1840 - 1916
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 35
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 36
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 37
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 38
1890 - 1954
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 39
1851 - 1931
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 40
1877 - 1963
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 41
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 42
1888 - 1971
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 43
1919 - 1995
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 44