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Norman Joseph Woodland

1921 - 2012

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Norman Joseph Woodland (September 6, 1921 – December 9, 2012) was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Joseph Woodland has received more than 190,424 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Norman Joseph Woodland is the 324th most popular inventor (down from 311th in 2019), the 6,853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,590th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 324 out of 354. Before him are Albrecht Berblinger, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry Shrapnel, Georges Beuchat, Phil Ramone, and Marion Donovan. After him are Roland Moreno, Per Georg Scheutz, Barnes Wallis, Margaret E. Knight, Ken Olsen, and Joseph Engelberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 301. Before him are Aldo Gordini, Steve Allen, Carlo Parola, Ursula Franklin, Egon Jönsson, and Roman Abelevich Kachanov. After him are John Russell, Eusebio Castigliano, Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Pancho Segura, Joe Fagan, and Wu Xueqian. Among people deceased in 2012, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 279. Before him are Vadim Glowna, Jacques Dupin, Ulu Grosbard, Fyodor Khitruk, Franz West, and Ahmed Jabari. After him are Albert George Wilson, Barney McKenna, Roland Moreno, Leila Denmark, Lennart Samuelsson, and Kurt Maetzig.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 6,853 out of 18,182. Before him are Rebecca Miller (1962), Alan Hovhaness (1911), Stephen Hunter (1946), Randy Johnson (1963), Larry McMurtry (1936), and William Stevenson (1900). After him are Mildred Gillars (1900), Theodore Freeman (1930), Charles R. Knight (1874), Gil Birmingham (1953), Mildred Davis (1901), and Kenneth Lay (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 83. Before him are Lynn Conway (1938), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), John Fitch (1743), Jay Miner (1932), Robert S. Langer (1948), and Marion Donovan (1917). After him are Margaret E. Knight (1838), Ken Olsen (1926), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Frank Piasecki (1919), Amar Bose (1929), and George Stibitz (1904).

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