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Royal Rife

1888 - 1971

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Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. Rife is known for his microscopes, which he claimed could observe live microorganisms with a magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an "oscillating beam ray" invention, which he thought could treat various ailments by "devitalizing disease organisms" using radio waves. Although he came to collaborate with scientists, doctors and inventors of the epoch, and his findings were published in newspapers and scientific journals like the Smithsonian Institution annual report of 1944, they were later rejected by the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Cancer Society (ACS) and mainstream science. Rife's supporters continue to claim that impulses of electromagnetic frequencies can disable cancerous cells and other microorganisms responsible for diseases. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Royal Rife is the 207th most popular inventor (down from 163rd in 2019), the 3,637th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,373rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Royal Rife ranks 207 out of 426. Before him are Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Reginald Fessenden, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva. After him are James Dyson, Édouard Branly, Charles Xavier Thomas, Helmut Gröttrup, Lou Ottens, and Yuan Longping.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Royal Rife ranks 106. Before him are Roberto Assagioli, Du Yuesheng, Jakow Trachtenberg, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Herms Niel, and Francesco Baracca. After him are Grigori Sokolnikov, S. S. Van Dine, Harilal Gandhi, Carl Hilpert, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, and James Waddell Alexander II. Among people deceased in 1971, Royal Rife ranks 88. Before him are Duane Allman, Princess Anna of Montenegro, Joseph Valachi, Amet-khan Sultan, Otto Lasch, and Ralph Bunche. After him are Bella Darvi, Frank Wolff, H. A. R. Gibb, Georgi Asparuhov, James Alberione, and Mikhail Romm.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 3,637 out of 20,380. Before him are Tyler, the Creator (1991), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Morris Swadesh (1909), Maxie Long (1878), and George Koval (1913). After him are John Anderson (1907), Barry Manilow (1943), Terence McKenna (1946), Alan Perlis (1922), Leonard Susskind (1940), and John C. Bogle (1929).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Royal Rife ranks 57. Before him are Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), Sequoyah (1770), Garrett Morgan (1877), J. Presper Eckert (1919), and Eunice Newton Foote (1819). After him are Melvil Dewey (1851), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Laurens Hammond (1895), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Philo Farnsworth (1906), and Charles Martin Hall (1863).

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