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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 669,709 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Patricia Bath is the 323rd most popular inventor (up from 341st in 2019), the 6,388th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,559th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Patricia Baths by language

Over the past year Patricia Bath has had the most page views in the with 67,755 views, followed by Portuguese (10,396), and Spanish (6,405). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (357.32%), Mingrelian (65.90%), and Simple English (58.33%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Patricia Bath ranks 323 out of 426Before her are Heinrich Gerber, Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, and Lynn Conway. After her are Jay Miner, Harry Ferguson, John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, and Bernard Lown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Patricia Bath ranks 442Before her are Pedro Solbes, Gillian Rubinstein, Charmian Carr, Paco Peña, Michael Mann, and Dith Pran. After her are Rutanya Alda, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Jim Keltner, Deirdre McCloskey, Driss Bamous, and Lutz D. Schmadel. Among people deceased in 2019, Patricia Bath ranks 308Before her are Carolee Schneemann, Fred Bongusto, Ivan Dimitrov, George Fernandes, Robert Ryman, and Jerrie Cobb. After her are Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Egon Zimmermann, Med Hondo, Larry Cohen, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, and Billy McNeill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 6,388 out of 20,380Before her are Thelma Todd (1906), Steven Culp (1955), Bernadette Peters (1948), Joseph Sweeney (1884), Jerrie Cobb (1931), and Theodore Robinson (1852). After her are Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Peter Facinelli (1973), Henry Carr (1941), Maurice Costello (1877), and John Ratzenberger (1947).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 82Before her are Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), and Lynn Conway (1938). After her are Jay Miner (1932), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Orville Gibson (1856), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Beulah Louise Henry (1888), and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859).