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Harvey Fletcher

1884 - 1981

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Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was an American physicist. Known as the "father of stereophonic sound", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early electronic hearing aid. He was an investigator into the nature of speech and hearing, and made contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering, speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harvey Fletcher has received more than 135,536 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Harvey Fletcher is the 696th most popular physicist, the 8,679th most popular biography from United States and the 150th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 140k

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  • 43.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harvey Fletcher ranks 696 out of 717. Before him are Juris Upatnieks, Grigory Landsberg, Charles W. Misner, Harriet Brooks, Peter Zoller, and Stanton T. Friedman. After him are Isaak Kikoin, Cumrun Vafa, Helen Quinn, Jürgen Kurths, Christian Møller, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Harvey Fletcher ranks 199. Before him are Hugh Walpole, Frithiof Mårtensson, Pontus Hanson, Frederick Grace, William Hogenson, and Georg Selenius. After him are Harald Hansen, Olle Lanner, James Cruze, C. H. Dodd, Edward Archibald, and José Patricio Guggiari. Among people deceased in 1981, Harvey Fletcher ranks 217. Before him are David Garnett, Alberto Zozaya, Boris Sagal, Rudolf Viertl, Geirr Tveitt, and Sam Jones. After him are Wanda Hendrix, Stefanie Clausen, Ella Hall, Paolo Mazza, Bronisław Malinowski, and Cuth Harrison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harvey Fletcher ranks 8,679 out of 18,182. Before him are Cindy Williams (1947), Sam Jones (1924), The Game (1979), James Foley (1973), John Munro Longyear (1850), and ZaSu Pitts (1894). After him are Brian Tyree Henry (1982), Rakim (1968), Larry Adler (1914), Michelle Forbes (1965), Gloria Hendry (1949), and Amanda Bynes (1986).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harvey Fletcher ranks 150. Before him are Frank Benford (1883), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Charles H. Bennett (1943), John Clauser (1942), Charles W. Misner (1932), and Stanton T. Friedman (1934). After him are Seymour Benzer (1921), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), Robert Bacher (1905), Edward C. Stone (1936), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Howard P. Robertson (1903).

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