1909 - 1991
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin H. Land has received more than 442,761 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Edwin H. Land is the 399th most popular physicist (down from 391st in 2019), the 2,842nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,535th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Edwin H. Land ranks 399 out of 721. Before him are Christian Bohr, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Ányos Jedlik, Emil Wiechert, Vladimir Fock, and Giovanni Aldini. After him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Walther Meissner, Walther Gerlach, Christopher Polhem, Samuel Goudsmit, and John Kerr.
1855 - 1911
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 393
1797 - 1869
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 394
1800 - 1895
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 395
1861 - 1928
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 396
1898 - 1974
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 397
1762 - 1834
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 398
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 399
1865 - 1950
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 400
1882 - 1974
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 401
1889 - 1979
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 402
1661 - 1751
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 403
1902 - 1978
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 404
1824 - 1907
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 405
Among people born in 1909, Edwin H. Land ranks 107. Before him are Attilio Demaría, Karl Schäfer, Olga Rubtsova, Ryszard Siwiec, Hendrik Casimir, and Gottfried von Cramm. After him are Isa Miranda, Adib Shishakli, Matti Järvinen, Johannes Willebrands, Richard Wurmbrand, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Among people deceased in 1991, Edwin H. Land ranks 85. Before him are Ernst Krenek, María Zambrano, Étienne Decroux, Cassandra Harris, Daigoro Kondo, and Aladár Gerevich. After him are Vasko Popa, Otl Aicher, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Willi Boskovsky, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Metin Oktay.
1909 - 1990
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 101
1909 - 1976
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 102
1909 - 1994
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 103
1909 - 1968
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 104
1909 - 2000
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 105
1909 - 1976
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 106
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 107
1909 - 1982
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 108
1909 - 1964
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 109
1909 - 1985
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 110
1909 - 2006
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 111
1909 - 2001
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 112
1909 - 1985
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 113
1900 - 1991
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 79
1904 - 1991
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 80
1898 - 1991
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 81
1948 - 1991
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 82
1907 - 1991
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 83
1910 - 1991
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 84
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 85
1922 - 1991
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 86
1922 - 1991
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 87
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 88
1909 - 1991
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 89
1901 - 1991
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 90
1936 - 1991
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 91
Among people born in United States, Edwin H. Land ranks 2,842 out of 15,968. Before him are Larry Niven (1938), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Walter De Maria (1935), Dita Von Teese (1972), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), and Eva Longoria (1975). After him are Moses Malone (1955), Charles Jencks (1939), Terry Goodkind (1948), Julie Harris (1925), Ronald Inglehart (1934), and Adrian Smith (1944).
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,836
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,837
1935 - 2013
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,838
1972 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,839
1889 - 1960
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,840
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 2,841
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,842
1955 - 2015
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,843
1939 - 2019
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,844
1948 - 2020
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,845
1925 - 2013
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,846
1934 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,847
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 2,848
Among physicists born in United States, Edwin H. Land ranks 80. Before him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Carl Wieman (1951), Nick Holonyak (1928), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and Lyman Spitzer (1914). After him are Chester Carlson (1906), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Frank Wilczek (1951), Alan Guth (1947), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Philip Abelson (1913).
1921 - 2007
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 74
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 75
1928 - Present
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 76
1901 - 1967
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 77
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 78
1914 - 1997
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 79
1909 - 1991
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 80
1906 - 1968
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 81
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 82
1951 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 83
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 84
1922 - 2015
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 85
1913 - 2004
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 86