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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, and a significant achievement for self-portraiture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Cornelius has received more than 504,648 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert Cornelius is the 257th most popular inventor (down from 210th in 2019), the 4,222nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,091st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Cornelius ranks 257 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Whitworth, Léon Gaumont, Fritz von Opel, Ricardo Wolf, Abraham Darby I, and James Nasmyth. After him are Petrache Poenaru, Arthur Wynne, Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Frederick Scott Archer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Robert Cornelius ranks 44. Before him are Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Bénédict Morel, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Kit Carson, Constantin von Alvensleben, and Matsumura Sōkon. After him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, William B. Travis, Cyrus McCormick, Oswald Heer, Louis Charles Delescluze, and Rutherford Alcock. Among people deceased in 1893, Robert Cornelius ranks 49. Before him are Tivadar Puskás, Victor Schœlcher, Pierre Tirard, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Arabo, and Franz Grashof. After him are Anton von Schmerling, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Jean Dufresne, Georgi Pulevski, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., and Concepción Arenal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Cornelius ranks 4,222 out of 20,380. Before him are Patrick Wayne (1939), John Kitzmiller (1913), Samuel Jones (1880), Paul Wesley (1982), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), and Michael Brecker (1949). After him are William Calley (1943), Stanley Kamel (1943), Robert McKee (1941), Helen Wills (1905), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), and Thom Mayne (1944).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Cornelius ranks 62. Before him are Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), and Laurens Hammond (1895). After him are Glenn Curtiss (1878), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), and Ralph Hartley (1888).

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