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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 846,408 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Melvil Dewey is the 177th most popular inventor (down from 160th in 2019), the 2,543rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,308th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Melvil Dewey ranks 177 out of 354. Before him are Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, Ottaviano Petrucci, Peter Henlein, Hubert Cecil Booth, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. After him are Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, Friedrich Zander, and Gerald Bull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Melvil Dewey ranks 35. Before him are Franz von Liszt, Guillaume Bigourdan, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Jacobus Kapteyn, and Theodor Lipps. After him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Charles Dupuy, Arne Garborg, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Jonas Basanavičius, and Oliver Lodge. Among people deceased in 1931, Melvil Dewey ranks 48. Before him are Charles Algernon Parsons, Joe Masseria, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Auguste Forel, Eugene de Blaas, and Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria. After him are Antonio Salandra, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, David Bruce, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Alexandre Darracq, and Nellie Melba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melvil Dewey ranks 2,543 out of 18,182. Before him are Martin Chalfie (1947), Katharine Ross (1940), Eleanor Parker (1922), Irving Baxter (1876), Lana Del Rey (1985), and Bill Nunn (1953). After him are Debra Winger (1955), Alfred Bester (1913), Anna May Wong (1905), Shannen Doherty (1971), Sue Lyon (1946), and Joe Dante (1946).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Melvil Dewey ranks 40. Before him are Mary Anderson (1862), Hiram Maxim (1840), Sequoyah (1770), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Charles Martin Hall (1863), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890). After him are Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), Royal Rife (1888), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), and Philo Farnsworth (1906).

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