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Royal Rife

1888 - 1971

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Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. Rife is known for his microscopes, which he claimed could observe live microorganisms with a magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an "oscillating beam ray" invention, which he thought could treat various ailments by "devitalizing disease organisms" using radio waves. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Royal Rife has received more than 1,324,708 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Royal Rife is the 163rd most popular inventor (up from 185th in 2019), the 2,373rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,735th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.17

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Royal Rife ranks 163 out of 426. Before him are Fausto Veranzio, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Garrett Morgan, William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. After him are Angelo Moriondo, Lucien Olivier, Siegfried Marcus, Édouard Branly, Elihu Thomson, and Lagâri Hasan Çelebi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Royal Rife ranks 84. Before him are Du Yuesheng, Alphonse Juin, Grigori Sokolnikov, Jean Wahl, Jakow Trachtenberg, and Prince Axel of Denmark. After him are Victor Goldschmidt, Gunichi Mikawa, Chōjun Miyagi, Hans Richter, Hans von Salmuth, and Milan Stojadinović. Among people deceased in 1971, Royal Rife ranks 57. Before him are T. V. Soong, Jo Siffert, Philippe Thys, J. D. Bernal, Viktor Patsayev, and Dean Acheson. After him are Broncho Billy Anderson, Dita Parlo, Pedro Rodríguez, Philo Farnsworth, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, and Princess Anna of Montenegro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 2,373 out of 20,380. Before him are Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Rob Reiner (1947), Pauley Perrette (1969), Roger Myerson (1951), Michael Rosbash (1944), and Johnston McCulley (1883). After him are Joanna Cassidy (1945), Carol W. Greider (1961), Betty Robinson (1911), Andy Williams (1927), A. L. Kroeber (1876), and Mos Def (1973).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 41. Before him are Sequoyah (1770), Elias Howe (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), and Garrett Morgan (1877). After him are Philo Farnsworth (1906), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878).

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