The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 25th most number of Computer Scientists behind Thailand and Greenland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Romanian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Liviu Librescu (1930 - 2007)
With an HPI of 49.25, Liviu Librescu is the most famous Romanian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Liviu Librescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈlivju liˈbresku]; Hebrew: ליביו ליברסקו; August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor. Coincidentally, Librescu's act of heroism happened on Nisan 27 in the Jewish lunar calendar. That date is Yom HaShoah, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as computer scientists born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased computer scientists include Liviu Librescu.
