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Robert Metcalfe

1946 - Today

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Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during the 1990s. Metcalfe has received various awards, including the IEEE Medal of Honor and National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his work developing Ethernet technology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Metcalfe is the 168th most popular inventor (up from 213th in 2019), the 2,770th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,159th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Metcalfe ranks 168 out of 426. Before him are Zacharias Janssen, Oliver Lodge, Georg Luger, Alfred Vail, Guillaume Amontons, and Robert Watson-Watt. After him are Charles Algernon Parsons, Jang Yeong-sil, John Ericsson, Sandford Fleming, Heinrich Göbel, and Charles Cros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Metcalfe ranks 195. Before him are Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Héctor Babenco, Mario Zenari, Ahmed Faras, Mel Martínez, and Krister Henriksson. After him are Jean-Pierre Jarier, Ellison Onizuka, George Young, Harold Shipman, Juan José Omella, and Jesualdo Ferreira.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 2,770 out of 20,380. Before him are Merian C. Cooper (1893), Paul Wolfowitz (1943), Doc Holliday (1851), Lionel Barrymore (1878), Bobby McFerrin (1950), and Jerry Butler (1939). After him are Cochise (1805), Loretta Lynch (1959), Elisha Cook Jr. (1903), Cab Calloway (1907), Priscilla Pointer (1924), and Chris Noth (1954).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Metcalfe ranks 49. Before him are Mary Anderson (1862), Robert Moog (1934), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), and Alfred Vail (1807). After him are Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), Sequoyah (1770), Garrett Morgan (1877), and J. Presper Eckert (1919).

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