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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 885,444 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Robert Metcalfe is the 266th most popular inventor (up from 286th in 2019), the 4,384th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,275th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 50.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Metcalfe ranks 266 out of 354. Before him are Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, James Nasmyth, Michael S. Hart, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Walter Clopton Wingfield. After him are David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, and Adolf Martens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Metcalfe ranks 284. Before him are Paul Davies, Dan O'Bannon, Johnson Toribiong, John Spencer, Moritz Leuenberger, and Carl Wilson. After him are Davorin Popović, Suzanne Somers, Aleksander Wolszczan, Jacques Tardi, Minoru Kobata, and Jiří Bělohlávek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 4,384 out of 18,182. Before him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924), Carl Wilson (1946), Anthony Heald (1944), RuPaul (1960), Billy Vaughn (1919), and Barbara Babcock (1937). After him are Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Robert Smith (1757), Country Joe McDonald (1942), Leon Russell (1942), Desmond Child (1953), and Sasha Grey (1988).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 64. Before him are Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Walter Hunt (1796), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), and Michael S. Hart (1947). After him are David Bushnell (1742), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), and Wilson Greatbatch (1919).

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