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Elizabeth Holmes

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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur and convicted felon; her felony fraud charges stemming from her blood-testing company, Theranos. The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. In the following year, as revelations of fraud about Theranos's claims began to surface, Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune named her in its feature article on "The World's 19 Most Disappointing Leaders". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Holmes is the 161st most popular inventor (up from 361st in 2019), the 2,662nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,091st in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 161 out of 426. Before her are Friedrich Zander, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Joseph Monier, Paul Baran, Christopher Latham Sholes, and Edwin Howard Armstrong. After her are Zacharias Janssen, Oliver Lodge, Georg Luger, Alfred Vail, Guillaume Amontons, and Robert Watson-Watt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 20. Before her are Robinho, Sarah Rose Karr, Tom Scott, LeBron James, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Bastian Schweinsteiger. After her are Avril Lavigne, Alizée, Kazuyuki Mugita, Javier Mascherano, Katy Perry, and Robert Kubica.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 2,662 out of 20,380. Before her are Daryl Hannah (1960), Lynda Carter (1951), Paul Goodman (1911), Chris Evans (1981), Nan Goldin (1953), and Big Van Vader (1955). After her are Pam Grier (1949), Robert Ballard (1942), Frederick William Franz (1893), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), Val Valentino (1956), and Billy Gibbons (1949).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elizabeth Holmes ranks 47. Before her are Peter Cooper (1791), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Mary Anderson (1862), Robert Moog (1934), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890). After her are Alfred Vail (1807), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), and Sequoyah (1770).

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