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Eugene Polley

1915 - 2012

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Eugene Polley (November 29, 1915 – May 20, 2012) was an electrical engineer and engineering manager for Zenith Electronics who invented the first wireless remote control for television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Polley has received more than 65,378 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Eugene Polley is the 217th most popular engineer (up from 249th in 2019), the 4,774th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,885th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Engineer.

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  • 65k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Eugene Polley ranks 217 out of 323. Before him are André Waterkeyn, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Emily Warren Roebling, and Benoît Fourneyron. After him are Georgy Beriev, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Arkhip Lyulka, Gioacchino Colombo, Enrico Forlanini, and Alexander Mikulin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Eugene Polley ranks 143. Before him are Vladimir Zeldin, Herman Wouk, Hans Christian Blech, Garrett Hardin, Harry Morgan, and Sergio Bertoni. After him are Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Tapio Rautavaara, Else Krüger, William Masters, Maxime Rodinson, and Antonio Innocenti. Among people deceased in 2012, Eugene Polley ranks 200. Before him are Simeon ten Holt, Marvin Hamlisch, Sergey Kapitsa, Fang Lizhi, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Pierre Sinibaldi. After him are Paavo Berglund, George Knobel, John Keegan, Simin Daneshvar, Ervin Zádor, and Włodzimierz Smolarek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Polley ranks 4,774 out of 18,182. Before him are George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), Jerry Hall (1956), Joe Dallesandro (1948), Elvin Hayes (1945), and Demi Lovato (1992). After him are Gilbert Baker (1951), Tyler, the Creator (1991), Fay Bainter (1893), Roy Raymond (1947), Edmund Randolph (1753), and Dennis Frederiksen (1951).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Eugene Polley ranks 21. Before him are Jon Postel (1943), Seymour Cray (1925), Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Emily Warren Roebling (1843). After him are Burt Rutan (1943), Aron Ralston (1975), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Frederick Terman (1900), and Jack Parsons (1914).

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