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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 133,053 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Laurens Hammond is the 224th most popular inventor (up from 238th in 2019), the 3,389th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,729th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 130k

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  • 52.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Laurens Hammond ranks 224 out of 354. Before him are Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, Robert Watson-Watt, Thonmi Sambhota, Frederick Scott Archer, and Raymond Damadian. After him are Marcian Hoff, Ruth Handler, Ricardo Wolf, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ottomar Anschütz, and Elihu Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Laurens Hammond ranks 121. Before him are Immanuel Velikovsky, Pan Yuliang, Paul Giesler, Jakov Gotovac, Vsevolod Merkulov, and Rolf Nevanlinna. After him are John Gilbert, René Mayer, Jacques Brugnon, Roza Eskenazi, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Xu Beihong. Among people deceased in 1973, Laurens Hammond ranks 108. Before him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Gabriel Voisin, Lorenzo Fernández, Vilhelm Moberg, Robert Watson-Watt, and Mirra Alfassa. After him are Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, Joseph Szigeti, Karel Ančerl, and Salchak Toka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laurens Hammond ranks 3,389 out of 18,182. Before him are Rhonda Fleming (1923), Jimmy Smith (1925), Joe Spinell (1936), Gustave Gilbert (1911), Vinnie Vincent (1952), and Dermot Mulroney (1963). After him are Marcian Hoff (1937), Joe Walsh (1947), Ruth Handler (1916), James Taylor (1948), George Ellery Hale (1868), and Jon Cryer (1965).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Laurens Hammond ranks 52. Before him are Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), Robert Cornelius (1809), Larry Sanger (1968), and Raymond Damadian (1936). After him are Marcian Hoff (1937), Ruth Handler (1916), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Theodore Maiman (1927), Glenn Curtiss (1878), and Ray Dolby (1933).

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