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Lillian Moller Gilbreth

1878 - 1972

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Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (née Moller; May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living." Gilbreth, one of the first female engineers to earn a Ph.D., is considered to be the first industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering, especially in the areas of motion study and human factors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lillian Moller Gilbreth has received more than 672,949 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Lillian Moller Gilbreth is the 196th most popular inventor (up from 228th in 2019), the 2,854th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,438th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lillian Moller Gilbreth ranks 196 out of 426. Before her are Ottaviano Petrucci, Jethro Tull, Orban, Christopher Latham Sholes, Charles Xavier Thomas, and David Edward Hughes. After her are Oskar Barnack, Eunice Newton Foote, Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth ranks 78. Before her are Kurt Goldstein, Wander Johannes de Haas, Erich Mühsam, Mikhail Artsybashev, Maxie Long, and Grigory Petrovsky. After her are Louis Camille Maillard, Zabel Yesayan, Edward Kasner, Felix Bernstein, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, and Jorge Ubico. Among people deceased in 1972, Lillian Moller Gilbreth ranks 84. Before her are Jo Bonnier, C. W. Ceram, Ernst von Salomon, Nikolay Krylov, René Mayer, and Frank Knight. After her are Milton L. Humason, Mohamed Oufkir, Fulbert Youlou, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Richard Courant, and James F. Byrnes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lillian Moller Gilbreth ranks 2,854 out of 20,380. Before her are Patricia Arquette (1968), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Frank Knight (1885), Fritz Leiber (1910), Everett McGill (1945), and Edmund M. Clarke (1945). After her are Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Selena (1971), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Cy Young (1867), and John W. Campbell (1910).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Lillian Moller Gilbreth ranks 47. Before her are Royal Rife (1888), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), and Christopher Latham Sholes (1819). After her are Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837).

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