INVENTOR

Harold Eugene Edgerton

1903 - 1990

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Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Eugene Edgerton has received more than 260,547 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Harold Eugene Edgerton is the 379th most popular inventor (down from 351st in 2019), the 8,794th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,466th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 260k

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  • 52.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 379 out of 426. Before him are Arunachalam Muruganantham, Margaret E. Knight, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, and Wordsworth Donisthorpe. After him are Kálmán Tihanyi, Barnes Wallis, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Mohamed M. Atalla, Herbert E. Ives, and Robert S. Langer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 304. Before him are Hermanni Pihlajamäki, Lucien Michard, Josef Maleček, M. King Hubbert, Juan Aguilera, and Werner Klingler. After him are George Coulouris, Yuli Raizman, Emil Hirschfeld, Georg Gehring, Oleg Losev, and Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés. Among people deceased in 1990, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 259. Before him are Max Bulla, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Costa Pereira, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Ann Bishop, and Ralph Abernathy. After him are František Douda, Mahmoud Namjoo, Ettore Giannini, Mohamed Latif, Çetin Zeybek, and Alice Marble.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 8,794 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump Jr. (1977), Roger Mahony (1936), Max Hardcore (1956), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Barton MacLane (1902), and Melora Hardin (1967). After him are Cameron Boyce (1999), Jon Jones (1987), Charles Reisner (1887), Brian Benben (1956), Sean Michaels (1958), and Melville Shavelson (1917).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 103. Before him are Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884). After him are Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Herbert E. Ives (1882), Robert S. Langer (1948), Mark Rober (1980), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), and Gary Fisher (1950).

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