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Edith Clarke

1883 - 1959

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Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was an American electrical engineer. She 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 211,262 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Edith Clarke is the 577th most popular physicist, the 5,586th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,765th in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.97

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edith Clarke ranks 577 out of 717. Before her are Yakov Frenkel, Alfred Perot, Emil Warburg, José Celestino Mutis, Victor J. Stenger, and Burkhard Heim. After her are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, and Isaak Khalatnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edith Clarke ranks 168. Before her are Tom Moore, Émile Eddé, Ford Sterling, Pentti Eskola, Lothrop Stoddard, and Jonathan M. Wainwright. After her are Abel Bonnard, Marcus Hurley, Şemsettin Günaltay, Paul Götz, Mel Sheppard, and Hjalmar Bergman. Among people deceased in 1959, Edith Clarke ranks 124. Before her are Kathryn Adams, Lou Costello, Alexander Rueb, Max Gerson, Boris Eikhenbaum, and Albert Namatjira. After her are Heleno de Freitas, Max O. Lorenz, Roald Larsen, Nicholas Charnetsky, Paul Rivet, and Friedrich Waismann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 5,586 out of 18,182. Before her are Hubert Dreyfus (1929), George Gervin (1952), Sara Teasdale (1884), Richard Lynch (1940), Richard Quine (1920), and Joshua Chamberlain (1828). After her are David Proval (1942), Bonnie Raitt (1949), John Drew Barrymore (1932), Dinah Shore (1916), William Dwight Whitney (1827), and Bob James (1939).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 114. Before her are William D. Coolidge (1873), Charles Kittel (1916), Robert Mills (1927), Bryce DeWitt (1923), James Hansen (1941), and Victor J. Stenger (1935). After her are Frank J. Tipler (1947), Gordon Gould (1920), Bill Nye (1955), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), and Joan Feynman (1927).

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