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Norman Joseph Woodland

1921 - 2012

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Norman Joseph Woodland (September 6, 1921 – December 9, 2012) was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of product labeling and check-out stands. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Joseph Woodland is the 364th most popular inventor (up from 389th in 2019), the 8,562nd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,022nd in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 364 out of 426. Before him are Margaret E. Knight, Joseph Bramah, František Křižík, Phil Ramone, Orville Gibson, and Andy Bechtolsheim. After him are Ken Olsen, Giovanni Caselli, Frank J. Sprague, Amar Bose, Andrew Viterbi, and Karl Jatho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 367. Before him are Paul Barth, Ettore Chimeri, Denys de La Patellière, Cyrille Adoula, Edmondo Fabbri, and Mikayil Abdullayev. After him are Vera-Ellen, Walter Rudin, János Pilinszky, Harold Agnew, Lennart Strand, and Abu Sayeed Chowdhury. Among people deceased in 2012, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 349. Before him are Klaus Schütz, Jorge Illueca, Jacques Dupin, Gerry Anderson, Brigitte Engerer, and Igor Kvasha. After him are Anna Schwartz, Oswaldo Payá, James Mellaart, Richard Rodney Bennett, Maeve Binchy, and Juan Francisco Lombardo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 8,564 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Rubin (1938), Warren Jeffs (1955), Jackson Scholz (1897), Robert Christgau (1942), Virgil Thomson (1896), and Oliver Nelson (1932). After him are Katherine Dunham (1909), Saoirse Ronan (1994), Priscilla Cooper Tyler (1816), Vera-Ellen (1921), David Dastmalchian (1977), and Gary Johnson (1953).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Norman Joseph Woodland ranks 94. Before him are Henry M. Leland (1843), John Fitch (1743), Dan Bricklin (1951), Jay Miner (1932), Margaret E. Knight (1838), and Orville Gibson (1856). After him are Ken Olsen (1926), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Amar Bose (1929), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), and Henry J. Kaiser (1882).

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