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Chester Carlson

1906 - 1968

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Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. Carlson invented electrophotography (now xerography, meaning "dry writing"), producing a dry copy in contrast to the wet copies then produced by the Photostat process; it is now used by millions of photocopiers worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chester Carlson has received more than 310,940 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Chester Carlson is the 382nd most popular physicist (up from 408th in 2019), the 2,611th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,009th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Physicist.

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  • 55.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Chester Carlson ranks 382 out of 717. Before him are Edwin H. Land, Vladimir Chelomey, Ányos Jedlik, Henri Tresca, Robert W. Wood, and Lyman Spitzer. After him are Johann Andreas Segner, Wolfgang Ketterle, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Philip Abelson, Louis Poinsot, and Friedrich Paschen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Chester Carlson ranks 113. Before him are Humberto Delgado, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fournier, Joan Hickson, Musa Cälil, and Antal Doráti. After him are Denis de Rougemont, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Samad Vurgun, Piero Taruffi, Philo Farnsworth, and Jean Dieudonné. Among people deceased in 1968, Chester Carlson ranks 73. Before him are Ryszard Siwiec, Augustin Bea, Hans Cramer, Jo Schlesser, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and István Dobi. After him are Soraya Tarzi, Charles Munch, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Jean Paulhan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chester Carlson ranks 2,611 out of 18,182. Before him are Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Pat Metheny (1954), Lorraine Bracco (1954), Asa Akira (1986), Danny Kaye (1911), and George Antheil (1900). After him are Andrea M. Ghez (1965), Annie Edson Taylor (1838), Michael Cunningham (1952), Michael H. Hart (1932), Cy Young (1867), and Ronnie Spector (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Chester Carlson ranks 81. Before him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Carl Wieman (1951), Edwin H. Land (1909), Robert W. Wood (1868), and Lyman Spitzer (1914). After him are Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Saul Perlmutter (1959).

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