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Annie Easley

1933 - 2011

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Annie Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an African American computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA's rocket systems and energy technologies. Easley's early work involved running simulations at NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility and studying the effects of rocket launches on earth's ozone layer. She taught herself assembly programming using languages like Formula Translating System (Fortran) and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to help with these simulations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Easley has received more than 456,588 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Annie Easley is the 134th most popular computer scientist (down from 118th in 2019), the 7,244th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,794th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Annie Easley ranks 134 out of 245. Before her are John L. Hennessy, Hal Finney, Jack Dorsey, Sudha Murty, James Rumbaugh, and Needleman–Wunsch algorithm. After her are Michael Stonebraker, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Robert Tarjan, Jaron Lanier, Silvio Micali, and Subhash Kak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Annie Easley ranks 371. Before her are Christa Stubnick, İsmail Ogan, Ahmed al-Senussi, Alex Cord, Denis Goldberg, and Robert Goulet. After her are Celso Torrelio, Luka Lipošinović, Norbert Eschmann, William Luther Pierce, Antón García Abril, and Anatoly Krutikov. Among people deceased in 2011, Annie Easley ranks 323. Before her are Joanna Russ, Iván Menczel, Marie Ljalková, Frances Bay, Hubert Sumlin, and Lewis Binford. After her are Robert Lamoureux, Henri Chammartin, Walter Breuning, Sergo Kotrikadze, Luiz Bueno, and Roger Gautier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Easley ranks 7,244 out of 20,380. Before her are Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), Jamie Dimon (1956), Lawrence Weiner (1942), Martha Cooper (1943), Betty Davis (1945), and Gerald Carr (1932). After her are Richard Egan (1921), Al Lewis (1923), David Dastmalchian (1977), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), Yasmine Bleeth (1968), and George Inness (1825).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Annie Easley ranks 80. Before her are Andy Rubin (1963), Phil Zimmermann (1954), John L. Hennessy (1952), Hal Finney (1956), Jack Dorsey (1976), and James Rumbaugh (1947). After her are Michael Stonebraker (1943), Robert Tarjan (1948), Jaron Lanier (1960), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), and David Patterson (1947).

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