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Edith Clarke

1883 - 1959

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Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; the first female engineer whose professional standing was recognized by Tau Beta Pi, the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States; and the first woman named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Clarke has received more than 228,792 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Clarke is the 679th most popular physicist (down from 577th in 2019), the 7,274th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,574th in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edith Clarke ranks 679 out of 851. Before her are John C. Slater, Yoshiaki Arata, Frederick Seitz, John Hopkinson, Max Tegmark, and Ursula Franklin. After her are Paul Scherrer, John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, Isaak Kikoin, and Robert R. Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edith Clarke ranks 216. Before her are Mikhail Gnessin, Pencho Zlatev, Károly Kós, Pentti Eskola, Charles Sheeler, and Abdul Muis. After her are Maude Fealy, Erik Granfelt, Käthe Kruse, Lothrop Stoddard, William Garbutt, and Jules Berry. Among people deceased in 1959, Edith Clarke ranks 163. Before her are Una O'Connor, Ivan Perestiani, Balthasar van der Pol, Antonio Campolo, José Durand Laguna, and Abdul Muis. After her are Emil František Burian, Ivor Bueb, Seán Lester, Eero Lehtonen, Leslie Johnson, and Peter Platzer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 7,274 out of 20,380. Before her are Vikki Carr (1941), Maynard James Keenan (1964), June Gable (1945), Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), Aileen Pringle (1895), and Mildred Dunnock (1901). After her are Andrew Stanton (1965), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), Mary Beth Peil (1940), James Foley (1953), Tim Daly (1956), and James Hall (1811).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 144. Before her are William Higinbotham (1910), Lee Smolin (1955), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), John C. Slater (1900), and Frederick Seitz (1911). After her are Robert R. Wilson (1914), Leona Woods (1919), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), and Stuart Hameroff (1947).

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