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William D. Coolidge

1873 - 1975

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William David Coolidge (; October 23, 1873 – February 3, 1975) was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and a vice-president of the corporation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William D. Coolidge has received more than 107,260 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William D. Coolidge is the 586th most popular physicist (down from 548th in 2019), the 5,442nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,168th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William D. Coolidge ranks 586 out of 851. Before him are Giuseppe Occhialini, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Charles W. Misner, José Celestino Mutis, Yakov Frenkel, and Franco Rasetti. After him are Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sergey Kapitsa, John Robison, Prosper-René Blondlot, and Georg Adolf Erman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, William D. Coolidge ranks 123. Before him are Wojciech Korfanty, Cesare Orsenigo, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ivan Shmelyov, Antonín Švehla, and Olav Bjaaland. After him are Antun Gustav Matoš, Sunao Tawara, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Wilhelm Kreis, Max Švabinský, and Jurgis Baltrušaitis. Among people deceased in 1975, William D. Coolidge ranks 155. Before him are Charles Journet, Morgan Taylor, Dave Alexander, Knut Kroon, Niginho, and Mark Donohue. After him are Hans Furler, Therese Giehse, Mascha Kaléko, Moe Howard, Edmundo Piaggio, and Minas Avetisyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William D. Coolidge ranks 5,442 out of 20,380. Before him are William R. Pogue (1930), Kathy Acker (1947), Henry M. Leland (1843), Mark Donohue (1937), Jennifer Esposito (1973), and Vinnie Colaiuta (1956). After him are Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Maura Healey (1971), Kenny Burrell (1931), Robert Cummings (1910), Debbie Allen (1950), and Henry Gunther (1895).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, William D. Coolidge ranks 116. Before him are Norman Holter (1914), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), John G. Trump (1907), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), and Charles W. Misner (1932). After him are Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), Joan Feynman (1927), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Robert H. Dicke (1916), and Henry Augustus Rowland (1848).

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