INVENTOR

Percy Spencer

1894 - 1970

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Percy Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor who became known as the inventor of the microwave oven. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Spencer has received more than 648,959 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Percy Spencer is the 120th most popular inventor (down from 113th in 2019), the 1,537th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,371st in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Inventor.

Percy Spencer is most famous for inventing the microwave oven.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Percy Spencer ranks 120 out of 426. Before him are Zacharias Janssen, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Josiah Warren, André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, and Theobald Boehm. After him are Josef Ressel, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, and Hugo Schmeisser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Percy Spencer ranks 54. Before him are V. V. Giri, Walter Brennan, André Kertész, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Bessie Smith, and Ernst Lindemann. After him are Leo Kanner, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Américo Tomás, Walter Warlimont, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Anton Mussert. Among people deceased in 1970, Percy Spencer ranks 55. Before him are Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, E. M. Forster, Lev Kuleshov, Maud Lewis, Erich Heckel, and Elsa Triolet. After him are Fritz Bayerlein, Elyesa Bazna, Barnett Newman, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Nikolay Shvernik, and Théo Sarapo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Percy Spencer ranks 1,537 out of 20,380. Before him are Theda Bara (1885), Arthur Penn (1922), Murray Bookchin (1921), Alex Jones (1974), Pat Nixon (1912), and Robert Loggia (1930). After him are Lil Wayne (1982), Lee Miller (1907), Gus Van Sant (1952), Sam Elliott (1944), Chris Cornell (1964), and Richard Jenkins (1947).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Percy Spencer ranks 30. Before him are Leo Fender (1909), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), Lee de Forest (1873), Josiah Warren (1798), and Hiram Maxim (1840). After him are Mary Anderson (1862), Elisha Gray (1835), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Robert Moog (1934), Sequoyah (1770), and Elias Howe (1819).

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