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Arpad Elo

1903 - 1992

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Arpad Emmerich Elo (né Élő Árpád Imre August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. He was a professor of physics at Marquette University in Milwaukee and a chess master. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arpad Elo has received more than 429,540 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Arpad Elo is the 373rd most popular physicist (up from 430th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 259th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arpad Elo ranks 373 out of 717. Before him are Edwin Hall, Ralph Asher Alpher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Franz Aepinus, Carl Wieman, and Maurice de Broglie. After him are Giovanni Aldini, Johanna Budwig, Edwin H. Land, Vladimir Chelomey, Ányos Jedlik, and Henri Tresca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Arpad Elo ranks 105. Before him are Nikolai Voznesensky, Nikolay Krylov, Cornell Woolrich, Alice Herz-Sommer, Victor Brauner, and Rudolf Serkin. After him are Michail Stasinopoulos, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Flaminio Bertoni, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and Maria Giuseppa Robucci. Among people deceased in 1992, Arpad Elo ranks 77. Before him are Deng Yingchao, Jânio Quadros, Koča Popović, Yang Kyoungjong, Alex Haley, and Muhammad Asad. After him are Wang Hongwen, Camarón de la Isla, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Giorgio Perlasca, Gavriil Ilizarov, and Josy Barthel.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Arpad Elo ranks 213 out of 866. Before him are Ferenc Erkel (1810), Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), Eugene Ormandy (1899), and Josef Dobrovský (1753). After him are Alfréd Hajós (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Antal Doráti (1906), István Dobi (1898), and Ödön Lechner (1845).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Arpad Elo ranks 6. Before him are Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Edward Teller (1908), Leo Szilard (1898), and Georg von Békésy (1899). After him are Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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