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INVENTORS from Belarus

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This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Inventors. The pantheon dataset contains 354 Inventors, 1 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 32nd most number of Inventors behind Luxembourg and South Korea.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Inventors of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Paul Baran (1926 - 2011)

With an HPI of 56.40, Paul Baran is the most famous Belarusian Inventor.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was an American-Jewish engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of modern digital communication.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as inventors born between 1926 and 1926. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Paul Baran.

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