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Everything you need to write about Rife Systems and Matthew Rife — bio, fact sheet, hi-res photos, brand assets, and a direct contact for interviews.
Fact sheet
Founder bio
Short (~50 words)
Matthew Rife is the founder of Rife Systems and great-nephew of Dr. Royal Raymond Rife. Working from inherited family journals and blueprints, he is restarting the family hardware work in Philadelphia under a tighter discipline: documented engineering, no medical claims, hand-built instruments, and an open archive of the real research record.
Medium (~120 words)
Matthew Rife is the founder of Rife Systems, a research-instrument company based in Philadelphia. He is the great-nephew of Dr. Royal Raymond Rife (1888–1971), the American optical engineer recognized in the 1944 Smithsonian Annual Report for his Universal Microscope. Working from inherited family journals, technical drawings, and engineering notes, Matthew previously operated Rife Technology before reorganizing the work as Rife Systems with a tighter, more public discipline. The company hand-builds research instruments to documented specifications, curates a 1.5-million-word archive of primary sources and modern peer-reviewed research, and operates an AI assistant grounded in those sources. Rife Systems makes no medical claims and does not endorse the post-1971 third-party "Rife machine" industry.
Approved talking points
Use these as canonical statements when quoting Rife Systems:
"Royal Raymond Rife was a real American optical engineer, peer-reviewed in Science, recognized by the Smithsonian. Most of what people 'know' about him came from the noise that grew around his name in the decades after his death."
— On the historical record
"Rife Systems is the family work, properly engineered. Hand-built instruments, documented lineage, no medical claims. We're not arguing with the noise — we're rebuilding the record."
— On what Rife Systems is
"The historical record was always there. The engineering specifications were always there. What's been missing for fifty years is someone willing to do the work without the noise."
— On why now
"Our instruments are educational research instruments. They are not FDA-cleared medical devices, do not diagnose or treat any condition, and are not marketed for medical use. We will not pretend otherwise to make a sale."
— On the medical-claims discipline
Image assets
Free for editorial use with credit "Courtesy Rife Systems." Right-click any image for full resolution; please don't crop the founder portrait.
Matthew Rife
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Dr. Royal Raymond Rife
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Rife & Kendall
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Universal Microscope No. 1
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Rife Ray Device
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Brand graphic (OG)
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Naming
Rife Systems — never "Rife Technology" (prior business), never "Rife machine" (industry term we don't use), never "Royal Rife Systems" (Royal is given name only).
Founder name
Matthew Rife — great-nephew of Dr. Royal Raymond Rife. He/him. Use "Matthew" on second reference.
Royal Rife name
Dr. Royal Raymond Rife — first reference. "Rife" or "Dr. Rife" on second reference. Born 1888, died 1971.
Brand colors
Ink #0a0e15 · Bone #ece8dd · Gold #d4a770
Suggested coverage angles
- A family heir reclaiming a name buried under decades of fringe industry — restoration, not reinvention
- The Smithsonian record vs. the post-1971 noise: how a real engineering legacy got obscured
- AI used carefully — RAG over a curated archive of primary sources, not generative speculation
- Hand-built American instrument manufacturing returning to a niche the original inventor pioneered
- How modern bioelectromagnetics literature (PEMF, MEG, RF cancer therapy) sits adjacent to Rife's documented work
Press contact
Interview requests, fact-checks, image releases, podcast bookings:
[email protected]Typical response within one business day.