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Wilson Greatbatch

1919 - 2011

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Wilson Greatbatch (September 6, 1919 – September 27, 2011) was an American engineer and pioneering inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilson Greatbatch has received more than 141,018 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilson Greatbatch is the 311th most popular inventor (down from 285th in 2019), the 6,069th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,310th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 311 out of 426. Before her are Alexander Bain, Paul von Jankó, David Bushnell, Dan Bricklin, Ken Olsen, and Jack Northrop. After her are Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, and Heinrich Gerber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 227. Before her are Laurence J. Peter, Jack Goody, Paolo Soleri, Ladislav Mňačko, Maurice Boitel, and Delfo Cabrera. After her are Åke Seyffarth, Manna Dey, Antonio Pietrangeli, Arnold Meri, Dries van der Lof, and Jon Pertwee. Among people deceased in 2011, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 274. Before her are Sakyo Komatsu, Ken Olsen, Geraldine Ferraro, Clemar Bucci, Tura Satana, and George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood. After her are Hans Apel, Mikhail Simonov, Filoimea Telito, Boris Chertok, Gary Speed, and Birgitta Trotzig.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 6,069 out of 20,380. Before her are Enoch L. Johnson (1883), Judge Reinhold (1957), Allen Garfield (1939), Tom Verlaine (1949), Mike Lee (1971), and S. Robson Walton (1944). After her are C. J. Cherryh (1942), Mickey Kuhn (1932), Pruitt Taylor Vince (1960), Loretta Swit (1937), Lee Aaker (1943), and Tommy Gunn (1967).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 78. Before her are Henry M. Leland (1843), Marion Donovan (1917), David Bushnell (1742), Dan Bricklin (1951), Ken Olsen (1926), and Jack Northrop (1895). After her are Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), Jay Miner (1932), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), and Orville Gibson (1856).

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