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Melvil Dewey

1851 - 1931

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Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief librarian at Columbia University. He was also a founding member of the American Library Association. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melvil Dewey has received more than 838,735 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Melvil Dewey is the 206th most popular inventor (down from 177th in 2019), the 3,038th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,537th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 54.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Melvil Dewey has had the most page views in the with 91,625 views, followed by French (6,602), and Spanish (4,876). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (105.24%), Hebrew (58.18%), and Serbian (54.85%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Melvil Dewey ranks 206 out of 426. Before him are David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, and Bartolomeu de Gusmão. After him are Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, and Gerald Bull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Melvil Dewey ranks 48. Before him are Luis Ricardo Falero, Alois Jirásek, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Aristide Bruant, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Charles Chamberland. After him are Oliver Lodge, Otto Schott, Taytu Betul, Anton Haus, George Abraham Grierson, and Alexandros Papadiamantis. Among people deceased in 1931, Melvil Dewey ranks 56. Before him are Shibusawa Eiichi, Lujo Brentano, Salvatore Maranzano, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Felix Blumenfeld, and Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria. After him are William Bates, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, David Bruce, Xu Zhimo, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, and Osachi Hamaguchi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melvil Dewey ranks 3,038 out of 20,380. Before him are Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), Dan Inosanto (1936), Calista Flockhart (1964), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898). After him are Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Edward Zwick (1952), Russell Means (1939), and Paul Romer (1955).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Melvil Dewey ranks 50. Before him are Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), and Raymond Damadian (1936). After him are J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), and Marcian Hoff (1937).

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