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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Abraham Lempel

1936 - 2023

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Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל; 10 February 1936 – 4 February 2023) was an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Lempel has received more than 111,754 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abraham Lempel is the 119th most popular computer scientist (down from 104th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 569th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Computer Scientist.

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  • 46.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Abraham Lempel ranks 119 out of 201. Before him are Robin Milner, Jean Bartik, Adele Goldberg, John L. Hennessy, Vitalik Buterin, and Annie Easley. After him are Paul G. Comba, Liu Gang, Arthur Samuel, Kathleen Antonelli, Michael Dertouzos, and Phil Zimmermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Abraham Lempel ranks 369. Before him are Jack Lousma, Míriam Colón, Ashley Cooper, C. Gordon Fullerton, Pen Sovan, and Carlos Mota Pinto. After him are Larry McMurtry, Martin Gilbert, Oreste Corbatta, Renato Corti, Ben Pon, and Harold Budd. Among people deceased in 2023, Abraham Lempel ranks 275. Before him are Osvaldo Héctor Cruz, Aleksandr Viktorenko, John Pilger, Jorge Edwards, Alberto Mario González, and Wilferd Madelung. After him are Michael Lerner, Fay Weldon, Lasse Berghagen, Vera T. Sós, Mikio Aoki, and John Zizioulas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abraham Lempel ranks 652 out of 1,083. Before him are Dmitry Kozak (1958), Paul A. Baran (1909), Hermann Kesten (1900), Alexander Ostrowski (1893), Henry Roth (1906), and Irina Kirichenko (1937). After him are Alexander Brailowsky (1896), Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), Marie Ljalková (1920), Vladimir Shainsky (1925), Emil Paur (1855), and Sergei Magnitsky (1972).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Ukraine

Among computer scientists born in Ukraine, Abraham Lempel ranks 2. Before him are Jan Koum (1976).

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