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Robert S. Langer

1948 - Today

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Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor. He is one of the nine Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert S. Langer has received more than 798,754 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Robert S. Langer is the 386th most popular inventor (down from 312th in 2019), the 8,918th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,435th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert S. Langers by language

Over the past year Robert S. Langer has had the most page views in the with 109,690 views, followed by Chinese (8,418), and German (5,303). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (155.80%), Malagasy (102.72%), and Bengali (37.34%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert S. Langer ranks 386 out of 426. Before him are Harold Eugene Edgerton, Kálmán Tihanyi, Barnes Wallis, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Mohamed M. Atalla, and Herbert E. Ives. After him are Oleg Losev, John Shepherd-Barron, Mark Rober, Norman Joseph Woodland, Robin Li, and Bill Atkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Robert S. Langer ranks 574. Before him are Ana Palacio, Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Javier Aguirresarobe, Charles Bradley, Joseph Bruyère, and Guido Knopp. After him are Horace Engdahl, Patricia Hill Collins, Maouhoub Ghazouani, Danuta Hübner, Birthe Kjær, and Allan Warren.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 8,918 out of 20,380. Before him are Priscilla Dean (1896), Aubrey Plaza (1984), James Smith (1953), James Cotton (1935), Marie Osborne Yeats (1911), and Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919). After him are Alice Marble (1913), Eddie Floyd (1937), Daniel Pearl (1963), Dick Clark (1929), Anita Bryant (1940), and Steve Wynn (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 107. Before him are Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), and Herbert E. Ives (1882). After him are Mark Rober (1980), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Gary Fisher (1950), George Beauchamp (1899), Dean Kamen (1951), and Granville Woods (1856).

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