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Andrew Viterbi

1935 - Today

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Andrew James Viterbi (born Andrea Giacomo Viterbi, March 9, 1935) is an electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Viterbi has received more than 536,228 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Andrew Viterbi is the 372nd most popular inventor (down from 349th in 2019), the 3,893rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,558th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Andrew Viterbi ranks 372 out of 426. Before him are William Friese-Greene, Lewis Howard Latimer, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry J. Kaiser, Per Georg Scheutz, and Frank Piasecki. After him are Arunachalam Muruganantham, Margaret E. Knight, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, and Wordsworth Donisthorpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Andrew Viterbi ranks 420. Before him are Jiří Čadek, Tenley Albright, Billy Whelan, Adnan Badran, Alfredo Hernández, and Paul A. Rothchild. After him are José Antonio Labordeta, Waldemar Baszanowski, Rinchen Barsbold, Sun Axelsson, Antal Kiss, and Frank Robinson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Andrew Viterbi ranks 3,893 out of 5,161. Before him are Giambattista Lolli (1698), Alessandro Petacchi (1974), Giovanni Scatturin (1893), Roberto Vittori (1964), Luigi Galleani (1861), and Cristiano Zanetti (1977). After him are Margherita Buy (1962), Romano Fogli (1938), Giovanni Zucchi (1931), Stefania Belmondo (1969), Ardico Magnini (1928), and Cassandra Fedele (1465).

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Among INVENTORS In Italy

Among inventors born in Italy, Andrew Viterbi ranks 10. Before him are Antonio Meucci (1808), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Angelo Moriondo (1851), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Max Valier (1895), and Giovanni Caselli (1815).

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