1948 - Today
Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and one of the eleven 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. He is also a faculty member of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Langer holds over 1,400 granted or pending patents. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert S. Langer has received more than 429,324 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert S. Langer is the 333rd most popular inventor (down from 307th in 2019), the 8,983rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,379th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Inventor.
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Among inventors, Robert S. Langer ranks 333 out of 355. Before him are Yvonne Brill, John F. Seitz, Peter Cooper, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Harold Eugene Edgerton, and Roger C. Field. After him are Richard Pearse, Arnold Orville Beckman, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Atkinson, Lawrence Hargrave, and Arunachalam Muruganantham.
1924 - 2013
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 327
1892 - 1979
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 328
1791 - 1883
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 329
1924 - 2019
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 330
1903 - 1990
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 331
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 332
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 333
1877 - 1953
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 334
1900 - 2004
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 335
1955 - Present
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 336
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 337
1850 - 1915
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 338
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 339
Among people born in 1948, Robert S. Langer ranks 489. Before him are Ana Palacio, Jerry L. Ross, Birthe Kjær, Rita Barberá, Meir Sheetrit, and Marcia Strassman. After him are Annette Charles, Ștefan Birtalan, Ben Burtt, Lynsey de Paul, Ted Lange, and Tipper Gore.
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 483
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 484
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 485
1948 - 2016
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 486
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 487
1948 - 2014
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 488
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 489
1948 - 2011
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 490
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 491
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 492
1948 - 2014
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 493
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 494
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 495
Among people born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 8,983 out of 15,968. Before him are Alfred Lunt (1892), Lamar Alexander (1940), Bridget Regan (1982), Scott McCloud (1960), Jason Schwartzman (1980), and Ethan Phillips (1955). After him are John N. Bahcall (1934), Robert Cormier (1925), Claire McDowell (1877), Bob Bryan (1978), Les Baxter (1922), and Larry Miller (1953).
1892 - 1977
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,977
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,978
1982 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,979
1960 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,980
1980 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,981
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,982
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,983
1934 - 2005
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 8,984
1925 - 2000
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 8,985
1877 - 1966
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 8,986
1978 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 8,987
1922 - 1996
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 8,988
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 8,989
Among inventors born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 92. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), John F. Seitz (1892), Peter Cooper (1791), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), and Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903). After him are Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Marc Andreessen (1971), Charles F. Kettering (1958), Wendell Brown (1961), and Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922).
1848 - 1928
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 86
1920 - 2010
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 87
1892 - 1979
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 88
1791 - 1883
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 89
1924 - 2019
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 90
1903 - 1990
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 91
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 92
1900 - 2004
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 93
1984 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 94
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 95
1958 - 1958
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 96
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 97
1922 - 2012
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 98