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William Moulton Marston

1893 - 1947

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William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (), was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Moulton Marston has received more than 3,273,588 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. William Moulton Marston is the 2,052nd most popular writer (up from 2,059th in 2019), the 2,692nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,586th in 2019) and the 242nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 54.90

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Moulton Marston ranks 2,052 out of 5,755. Before him are Fred Vargas, Herman Bang, Richard Adams, Taliesin, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, and Friedrich Rückert. After him are Pavel Kohout, Miguel Delibes, Erich Segal, Camilo Castelo Branco, Frederick Marryat, and Samad Vurgun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, William Moulton Marston ranks 92. Before him are Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Nestor Lakoba, Armand Călinescu, Raymond Dart, Israel Joshua Singer, and Marianne Brandt. After him are Gaston Julia, Miloš Crnjanski, Rahul Sankrityayan, Vera Brittain, George Ohsawa, and Mikheil Gelovani. Among people deceased in 1947, William Moulton Marston ranks 84. Before him are Victor Goldschmidt, Osami Nagano, Bronisław Huberman, Karol Świerczewski, Constantin Sănătescu, and Friedrich Paschen. After him are Lilly Reich, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Lucjan Żeligowski, August Eigruber, and Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Moulton Marston ranks 2,692 out of 18,182. Before him are Lionel Hampton (1908), Gertrude Ederle (1905), Amber Heard (1986), Amanda Seyfried (1985), Mick Mars (1951), and Don Walsh (1931). After him are Paul Strand (1890), Robert Conrad (1935), John Stockton (1962), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Cheryl Ladd (1951), and Erich Segal (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Moulton Marston ranks 242. Before him are Nelson Algren (1909), Joseph Heller (1923), August Derleth (1909), Annie Proulx (1935), John W. Campbell (1910), and James M. Cain (1892). After him are Erich Segal (1937), Djuna Barnes (1892), Maurice Sendak (1928), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Fritz Leiber (1910), and Archibald Gracie IV (1858).

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