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Robert Cornelius

1809 - 1893

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Robert Cornelius (; March 1, 1809 – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Cornelius has received more than 460,019 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Robert Cornelius is the 210th most popular inventor (up from 1,520th in 2019), the 3,098th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,551st in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 53.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Cornelius ranks 210 out of 354. Before him are Oliver Lodge, Hans von Ohain, John Wesley Hyatt, Eli Whitney, Helmut Gröttrup, and Max Skladanowsky. After him are Henry Maudslay, George de Mestral, Larry Sanger, Gaston Glock, Émile Baudot, and François Isaac de Rivaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Robert Cornelius ranks 32. Before him are François Certain de Canrobert, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Hannibal Hamlin, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. After him are Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Jules Favre, Edward FitzGerald, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Matsumura Sōkon. Among people deceased in 1893, Robert Cornelius ranks 31. Before him are Ferenc Erkel, Alexander Cunningham, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, José Zorrilla, Ford Madox Brown, and Jacob Moleschott. After him are Rudolf Wolf, Julius Popper, Matsudaira Katamori, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Samuel Baker, and Nikolai Zverev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Cornelius ranks 3,098 out of 18,182. Before him are Curtis Mayfield (1942), Scott Bakula (1954), John C. Reilly (1965), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Stockard Channing (1944), and Richard Chase (1950). After him are Jonathan Groff (1985), Teresa Wright (1918), Willy DeVille (1950), Lee Hazlewood (1929), Charles Curtis (1860), and Harris Yulin (1937).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Cornelius ranks 49. Before him are Royal Rife (1888), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Eli Whitney (1765). After him are Larry Sanger (1968), Raymond Damadian (1936), Laurens Hammond (1895), Marcian Hoff (1937), Ruth Handler (1916), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878).

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