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Edith Clarke

1883 - 1959

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Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was an American engineer and academic. She was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; the first female engineer whose professional standing was recognized by Tau Beta Pi, the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States; and the first woman named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Clarke is the 667th most popular physicist (up from 679th in 2019), the 7,427th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,273rd in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edith Clarke ranks 667 out of 851. Before her are Matvei Bronstein, Michael Green, Mario Livio, Seth Neddermeyer, Helen Quinn, and Alexander Markovich Polyakov. After her are Yoshiaki Arata, Brandon Carter, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, Ali Javan, and Orest Khvolson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edith Clarke ranks 212. Before her are Pietro Bianchi, Pentti Eskola, Dorothy Holman, Marion Lorne, Olav Aukrust, and Mel Sheppard. After her are Ford Sterling, František Drtikol, Feodor Gladkov, Pencho Zlatev, Gaston Amson, and Károly Kós. Among people deceased in 1959, Edith Clarke ranks 165. Before her are Maxwell Anderson, Jan Černý, Vitaly Bianki, Oskar Vogt, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Seán Lester. After her are Gustaf Weidel, Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, Ivan Perestiani, Ivor Bueb, Peter Platzer, and Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 7,429 out of 20,380. Before her are Marilyn Miller (1898), Assata Shakur (1947), Jeffrey Donovan (1968), Johnny Mathis (1935), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), and Lisa Murkowski (1957). After her are Patrick Kilpatrick (1949), Hal Needham (1931), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Millie Perkins (1938), Ed Helms (1974), and Jimmy Durante (1893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edith Clarke ranks 144. Before her are Joan Feynman (1927), Charles W. Misner (1932), William Higinbotham (1910), Edward Condon (1902), Brian Greene (1963), and Seth Neddermeyer (1907). After her are Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Norris Bradbury (1909), Lisa Randall (1962), Edwin H. Land (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), and John C. Slater (1900).

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