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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 1,238,357 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Royal Rife is the 185th most popular inventor, the 2,742nd most popular biography from United States and the 43rd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 54.75

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  • 16

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  • 4.82

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  • 2.21

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Royal Rife ranks 185 out of 354. Before him are Johann Christoph Denner, Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, Friedrich Zander, Gerald Bull, and George Pullman. After him are J. Presper Eckert, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Charles Xavier Thomas, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Narcís Monturiol, and Sandford Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Royal Rife ranks 89. Before him are Hans Richter, Du Yuesheng, Paul Morand, Alphonse Juin, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and Hans von Salmuth. After him are Chōjun Miyagi, Milan Stojadinović, Richard Courant, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Domenico Tardini, and Paul Ramadier. Among people deceased in 1971, Royal Rife ranks 70. Before him are Paul Lukas, Erich Abraham, August Derleth, John W. Campbell, T. V. Soong, and Joseph Valachi. After him are Viktor Patsayev, Philo Farnsworth, József Zakariás, Amet-khan Sultan, Mak Dizdar, and Dimitrios Loundras.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 2,742 out of 18,182. Before him are Kirk Kerkorian (1917), Joey DeMaio (1954), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Douglas Trumbull (1942), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), and Joseph Valachi (1904). After him are John Milnor (1931), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Wilder Penfield (1891), Freddie King (1934), Edgar Snow (1905), and Tracy Morgan (1968).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 43. Before him are Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), and George Pullman (1831). After him are J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), and Robert Cornelius (1809).

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