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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 132,189 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wilson Greatbatch is the 285th most popular inventor (down from 255th in 2019), the 5,322nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,142nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 130k

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  • 48.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 285 out of 354Before her are John Wilkinson, Thomas Wedgwood, Ivan Kulibin, André Blondel, Jack Northrop, and Rostislav Alexeyev. After her are Rowland Hill, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ralph Hartley, Tabitha Babbitt, John Barnard, and Walter Bruch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 197Before her are Mustai Karim, François Bordes, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Maria Lassnig, Paavo Aaltonen, and Gilles Andriamahazo. After her are Olle Anderberg, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, Laila Schou Nilsen, Hau Pei-tsun, Arnold Meri, and Daniil Granin. Among people deceased in 2011, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 229Before her are Coen Moulijn, Ludo Martens, Kiki Håkansson, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Andrée Chedid, and Margaret Price. After her are Zhanna Prokhorenko, Frederick Chiluba, Robert Ballaman, Kurt Nielsen, Hans Apel, and Takaji Mori.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 5,322 out of 18,182Before her are Lizabeth Scott (1922), Rachel Ticotin (1958), Simon Helberg (1980), Linda Perry (1965), Nita Naldi (1894), and Jason Beghe (1960). After her are Bryce DeWitt (1923), Leslie Grossman (1971), Buckethead (1969), Marie Doro (1882), Betsy Palmer (1926), and Little Walter (1930).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Wilson Greatbatch ranks 70Before her are Robert Metcalfe (1946), David Bushnell (1742), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), and Jack Northrop (1895). After her are Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), and Whitcomb L. Judson (1846).