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Robert Metcalfe

1946 - Today

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Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Metcalfe has received more than 926,210 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Robert Metcalfe is the 213th most popular inventor (up from 266th in 2019), the 3,159th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,372nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Metcalfe ranks 213 out of 426. Before him are Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, and Gerald Bull. After him are Helmut Gröttrup, John Wesley Hyatt, Artur Fischer, George Washington, Josip Belušić, and Max Skladanowsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Metcalfe ranks 231. Before him are Silvio Rodríguez, Alberto Colombo, Tom Savini, Craig Venter, John Waters, and Anatoliy Banishevskiy. After him are Lesley Gore, Ron Kovic, Marián Čalfa, Reggie Jackson, John Watson, and Andrea Dworkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 3,159 out of 20,380. Before him are Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Leon Panetta (1938), Jesse Jackson (1941), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Keith Carradine (1949), and Charles J. Guiteau (1841). After him are Erin Brockovich (1960), James F. Byrnes (1882), Dana Ivey (1941), Zac Efron (1987), Angry Grandpa (1950), and William Labov (1927).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 52. Before him are Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), and J. Presper Eckert (1919). After him are John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), and L. L. Langstroth (1810).

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