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Robert Adler

1913 - 2007

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Robert Adler (December 4, 1913 – February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents. He worked for Zenith Electronics, retiring as the company's Vice President and Director of Research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Adler has received more than 129,727 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Robert Adler is the 129th most popular inventor (down from 128th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 340th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Inventor.

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  • 59.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Adler ranks 129 out of 426. Before him are Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, Hugo Schmeisser, Samuel Crompton, and Mary Anderson. After him are Elisha Gray, Richard Jordan Gatling, Gunther von Hagens, W. O. Bentley, Robert Moog, and Zénobe Gramme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Robert Adler ranks 67. Before him are Stewart Granger, Luz Long, Edward Gierek, Bill Shankly, Heinz Linge, and Sergey Mikhalkov. After him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Israel Gelfand, Méret Oppenheim, Benjamin Bloom, and Yasuo Suzuki. Among people deceased in 2007, Robert Adler ranks 54. Before him are Taha Yassin Ramadan, Paul Lauterbur, Petar Stambolić, Michel Serrault, Bob Denard, and Rudolf Arnheim. After him are Ian Smith, Magda Szabó, Jaan Kross, Abbé Pierre, Ettore Sottsass, and Sol LeWitt.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Robert Adler ranks 323 out of 1,424. Before him are Gerhard Berger (1959), Lotte Lenya (1898), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Hans Makart (1840), and Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797). After him are Camillo Sitte (1843), Martin Karplus (1930), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Peter Fendi (1796), Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (1628), and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Robert Adler ranks 2. Before him are Gaston Glock (1929). After him are Georg Luger (1849), Viktor Schauberger (1885), and Štefan Banič (1870).

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