PSYCHOLOGIST

August Dvorak

1894 - 1975

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August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 9, 1975) was an American educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout. While his name is pronounced [ˈdvor̝aːk], with the ř roughly as a simultaneous trilled [r] and [ʒ] due to him being of Czech descent, Dvorak's family in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Dvorak has received more than 190,625 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). August Dvorak is the 221st most popular psychologist (down from 196th in 2019), the 8,883rd most popular biography from United States and the 78th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 2.78

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, August Dvorak ranks 221 out of 235. Before him are Christina Maslach, Robert Yerkes, Judith Rich Harris, Elsa Cayat, David Buss, and Simon Baron-Cohen. After him are Uta Frith, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Jonathan Kellerman, Joseph Nicolosi, Sherry Turkle, and Christine Ladd-Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, August Dvorak ranks 230. Before him are Abram Room, Oliver Leese, Ben Nicholson, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Francisco Pagazaurtundúa, and ZaSu Pitts. After him are Kazimierz Wierzyński, Robert Benson, Boris Shchukin, Alexander Hall, Anatoly Blagonravov, and Arthur Fadden. Among people deceased in 1975, August Dvorak ranks 228. Before him are Erik Adlerz, Tinoco, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Arne Halse, Inga Tidblad, and Per-Erik Hedlund. After him are Minta Durfee, Evelyn Brent, Erzsébet Schaár, Kay Johnson, Steve Prefontaine, and Anatoly Blagonravov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, August Dvorak ranks 8,883 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Arlen (1899), Robert Burks (1909), Arthur Hunnicutt (1910), Steve Cochran (1917), Marc Randolph (1958), and Charles Bradley (1948). After him are Robert Alda (1914), AnnaSophia Robb (1993), Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878), Susan Tyrrell (1945), William L. Marcy (1786), and Paul Heyman (1965).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, August Dvorak ranks 78. Before him are Nancy Chodorow (1944), Lee Cronbach (1916), Christina Maslach (1946), Robert Yerkes (1876), Judith Rich Harris (1938), and David Buss (1953). After him are Jonathan Kellerman (1949), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), Sherry Turkle (1948), Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847), Arthur Jensen (1923), and Evelyn Hooker (1907).

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