The Resume

(February 8, 1906-September 19, 1968)
Physicist/Patent Attorney/Inventor of Electrophotography
Granted thirty-four patents (28 for xerography)

Why he might be annoying:

He said 'Things don't come to mind readily all of a sudden, like pulling things out of the air. You have to get your inspiration from somewhere and usually you get it from reading something else.'
He spent most of his free time studying at the New York Public Library.
His experiments were one failure after another.
Principles of electrophotography were called 'the invention nobody wanted.'

Why he might not be annoying:

When he was one, his father developed severe tuberculosis throwing the familty into poverty.
He graduated college with a degree in Physics (1930).
Being a lawyer in a patent office he wanted a way to copy patents so he invented the first 'dry-copy' system (1938).
Xerox Corporation purchased rights to his xerographic invention (1950).
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1981).
Research: Tim Howard

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Scientists
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• Diseased Initials
• Horatio Alger Association Members
• I am a Seattleite
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Attended Caltech (California Institute of Technology)
• I Died in 1968 (Ranked: 62)
• Inventors
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing a Bow Tie
• Nerds and Nebbishes
• Profiles 3251-3500 (Ranked: 3447)
• Scientists
• Vehicle Names
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19680919)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 21 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 20 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 20 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 67 Votes: 56.72% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 110 Votes: 50.91% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 194 Votes: 49.48% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 267 Votes: 44.19% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 579 Votes: 44.21% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1456 Votes: 51.65% Annoying