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Harvey Fletcher

1884 - 1981

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Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was an American physicist. Known as the "father of stereophonic sound", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early electronic hearing aid. He was an investigator into the nature of speech and hearing, and made contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering, speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education. Following his death, he was credited with collaborating with his doctoral advisor, Robert Millikan, on the Nobel-prize winning oil drop experiment which first determined the charge of the electron. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harvey Fletcher is the 779th most popular physicist (down from 727th in 2019), the 10,511th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,508th in 2019) and the 177th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harvey Fletcher ranks 779 out of 851. Before him are Samuel King Allison, C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, Emil Wolf, and Egon Orowan. After him are Frank Press, Walter Munk, Anatoly Logunov, Henrik Svensmark, James M. Bardeen, and Rolf Landauer.

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Among people born in 1884, Harvey Fletcher ranks 242. Before him are Nora Barnacle, George Goulding, Alma Gluck, C. H. Dodd, Leon Schlesinger, and John James Shepherd. After him are Thomas Blamey, Carl Kempe, Sig Ruman, James Cruze, Calvin Bricker, and Arthur Edmund Carewe. Among people deceased in 1981, Harvey Fletcher ranks 259. Before him are Ernesto Prinoth, Alberto Héber Usher, Howard Hanson, James Corson, Delfo Cabrera, and Cuth Harrison. After him are Clarence Oldfield, Sam Jones, Wanda Hendrix, Bronisław Malinowski, Giuseppe Tosi, and Humberto Tomasina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harvey Fletcher ranks 10,513 out of 20,380. Before him are John Kocinski (1968), Jimmy Miller (1942), Debi Diamond (1965), Ne-Yo (1979), Wallace Stegner (1909), and Chesty Puller (1898). After him are Alphonso Johnson (1951), Jenna Presley (1987), Irma Thomas (1941), Barbara Bates (1925), David Blackwell (1919), and Frank Press (1924).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harvey Fletcher ranks 177. Before him are Frank Benford (1883), Paul Steinhardt (1952), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Robert Marshak (1916), Samuel King Allison (1900), and C. R. Hagen (1937). After him are Frank Press (1924), James M. Bardeen (1939), Robert Detweiler (1930), Erwin Hahn (1921), Edward C. Stone (1936), and Conyers Herring (1914).

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