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 118,517 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Abraham Lempel is the 92nd most popular computer scientist (up from 119th in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 649th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Computer Scientist.

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  • 50.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Abraham Lempel ranks 92 out of 245. Before him are Larry Tesler, Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, Ivar Jacobson, Mary Kenneth Keller, and Manuel Blum. After him are Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, John Draper, and Karen Spärck Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Abraham Lempel ranks 295. Before him are Elisabeth Kopp, Ivan Marchuk, Stephen E. Ambrose, Nutan, Frederick Ballantyne, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. After him are Troy Donahue, Frankétienne, Igor Rodionov, Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, and Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2023, Abraham Lempel ranks 346. Before him are Murtaza Rakhimov, Elisabeth Kopp, Anderl Molterer, Dževad Karahasan, Alain Besançon, and Helena Pilejczyk. After him are Alfredo Rojas, Bill Hayden, Wilferd Madelung, Renate Boy, Erkin Koray, and Pat McCormick.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abraham Lempel ranks 605 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Semichastny (1924), Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), Karl Doppler (1825), Vladimir Veksler (1907), and Polina Gelman (1919). After him are Jacek Kuroń (1934), Nathan Altman (1889), Aleksander Ford (1908), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), and Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938).

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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). After him are Kateryna Yushchenko (1919).

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