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Ray Dolby

1933 - 2013

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Ray Milton Dolby Hon OBE, HonFREng (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Dolby has received more than 401,368 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ray Dolby is the 246th most popular inventor (down from 205th in 2019), the 3,792nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,044th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ray Dolby ranks 246 out of 354. Before him are James Dyson, Joseph Whitworth, Alexander Parkes, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Theodore Maiman, and Glenn Curtiss. After him are Frank Zamboni, Jacob W. Davis, Ottó Bláthy, Aimo Lahti, Walter Hunt, and Aurel Stodola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ray Dolby ranks 192. Before him are Robert Blake, Juzo Itami, Renée Taylor, Jesús Gil, Jean Yanne, and Humberto Maschio. After him are Mark Eyskens, Bat Ye'or, Justo Tejada, Sergio Endrigo, Stuart Roosa, and James Rosenquist. Among people deceased in 2013, Ray Dolby ranks 180. Before him are Jim Hall, Radu Vasile, Carlo Lizzani, Eileen Brennan, Gérard de Villiers, and Richie Havens. After him are Pál Csernai, Saye Zerbo, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Jeff Hanneman, Amedeo Amadei, and Hjalmar Andersen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Dolby ranks 3,792 out of 18,182. Before him are Charles Bickford (1891), Richie Havens (1941), Linda Darnell (1923), Glenn Curtiss (1878), David D. Friedman (1945), and Lunalilo (1835). After him are Andrew Fire (1959), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Frank Zamboni (1901), William Goldman (1931), William Conrad (1920), and Brett Cullen (1956).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Ray Dolby ranks 58. Before him are Laurens Hammond (1895), Marcian Hoff (1937), Ruth Handler (1916), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Theodore Maiman (1927), and Glenn Curtiss (1878). After him are Frank Zamboni (1901), Walter Hunt (1796), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Michael S. Hart (1947), and Robert Metcalfe (1946).

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