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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 805,329 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert S. Langer is the 312th most popular inventor (up from 333rd in 2019), the 6,448th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,966th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 46.80

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

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  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert S. Langer ranks 312 out of 354. Before him are George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., John Fitch, Jay Miner, William Friese-Greene, Isaac Pitman, and Oleg Losev. After him are An Wang, Jozef Murgaš, Alexandre Alexeieff, Victor Hasselblad, Harry Brearley, and Albrecht Berblinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Robert S. Langer ranks 396. Before him are Chris Mulkey, Lyudmila Karachkina, Zhou Xiaochuan, Luciano Re Cecconi, Bud Cort, and Glenn Branca. After him are Leo Makkonen, Nana Jorjadze, Christopher Guest, Rainer Zobel, Goodwill Zwelithini, and Anthony Andrews.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 6,448 out of 18,182. Before him are Norman Mineta (1931), Daniel Mann (1912), Story Musgrave (1935), Rockmond Dunbar (1974), Tera Patrick (1976), and Raymond J. Barry (1939). After him are Bob Welch (1945), David A. R. White (1970), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Todd Haynes (1961), David Smith (1906), and Pia Zadora (1953).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert S. Langer ranks 81. Before him are Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Lynn Conway (1938), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), John Fitch (1743), and Jay Miner (1932). After him are Marion Donovan (1917), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Ken Olsen (1926), Joseph Engelberger (1925), and Frank Piasecki (1919).

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