INVENTOR

Laurens Hammond

1895 - 1973

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Laurens Hammond (January 11, 1895 – July 1, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurens Hammond has received more than 141,844 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Laurens Hammond is the 249th most popular inventor (down from 224th in 2019), the 3,966th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,381st in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Laurens Hammond ranks 249 out of 426. Before him are Thonmi Sambhota, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, Eugen Langen, Rodolphe Lindt, and Aimo Lahti. After him are Ottomar Anschütz, Joseph Whitworth, Léon Gaumont, Fritz von Opel, Ricardo Wolf, and Abraham Darby I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Laurens Hammond ranks 145. Before him are Bill W., Machine Gun Kelly, Erich Abraham, Jankel Adler, Iona Nikitchenko, and Nahum Goldmann. After him are Paul Gorguloff, Stefan Rowecki, Leonid Utyosov, László Almásy, Rudolph Minkowski, and Julijans Vaivods. Among people deceased in 1973, Laurens Hammond ranks 133. Before him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Jim Croce, Sergei Tumansky, Günther Pancke, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, and Ira Sprague Bowen. After him are Adolfo Zumelzú, Dean Corll, Alexander Mosolov, José Alfredo Jiménez, Aleksandr Ptushko, and Carmine Gallone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laurens Hammond ranks 3,966 out of 20,380. Before him are Mack Swain (1876), Marianne Williamson (1952), Frank Marshall (1946), David Wilkerson (1931), Lepke Buchalter (1897), and Larry Hankin (1940). After him are Grover Washington Jr. (1943), Kelly Johnson (1910), Virginia Cherrill (1908), Mae Marsh (1894), Robert Mueller (1944), and Steve Cropper (1941).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Laurens Hammond ranks 61. Before him are George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), and Frank Zamboni (1901). After him are Robert Cornelius (1809), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), and Whitcomb L. Judson (1846).

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