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Patricia Bath

1942 - 2019

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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patricia Bath has received more than 678,219 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Patricia Bath is the 341st most popular inventor, the 7,574th most popular biography from United States and the 91st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 680k

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  • 44.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Patricia Bath ranks 341 out of 354. Before her are George Stibitz, Hary Gunarto, Bill Atkinson, John Shepherd-Barron, Dan Bricklin, and Arthur Wynne. After her are Yvonne Brill, Gary Fisher, Kamil Tolon, Granville Woods, Kazimierz Prószyński, and Alfred Carlton Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Patricia Bath ranks 484. Before her are Mario Chaldú, Marianna Hill, Jimmy Miller, Pavel Sadyrin, Bernard Darniche, and Brandon Carter. After her are Bernard Bosquier, Lorenzo Piretto, Giovanni Lodetti, John E. Blaha, Allan Clarke, and Zygfryd Szołtysik. Among people deceased in 2019, Patricia Bath ranks 357. Before her are Albert Razin, Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Ivan Vutsov, Egisto Pandolfini, Gunder Bengtsson, and Tim Conway. After her are Richard Lugar, Jerrie Cobb, Manfred Stolpe, Kjell Bäckman, Enriqueta Basilio, and Raymond Bellot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 7,574 out of 18,182. Before her are Joe Torre (1940), William Chittick (1943), Robert Young (1907), Christie Brinkley (1954), J. Searle Dawley (1877), and Aaron Neville (1941). After her are Butler Lampson (1943), Colin Campbell Cooper (1856), Bella Abzug (1920), Candice Night (1971), Matthew Davis (1978), and Regina King (1971).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 91. Before her are Ken Olsen (1926), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Frank Piasecki (1919), Amar Bose (1929), George Stibitz (1904), and Dan Bricklin (1951). After her are Gary Fisher (1950), Granville Woods (1856), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Dean Kamen (1951), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), and Elizabeth Holmes (1984).

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