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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 his 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 176,382 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. August Dvorak is the 196th most popular psychologist.

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  • 180k

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  • 45.96

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  • 15

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  • 3.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, August Dvorak ranks 196 out of 183Before him are Lee Cronbach, Nancy Chodorow, Neal E. Miller, Gordon Neufeld, Carol Dweck, and Théodore Flournoy. After him are Jaak Panksepp, Anne Treisman, C. George Boeree, Joseph Nicolosi, Dan Ariely, and Uta Frith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, August Dvorak ranks 197Before him are Heikki Liimatainen, Tay Garnett, Bevil Rudd, Bill Johnston, Jean Debucourt, and Arthur Freed. After him are Corinne Griffith, Pelageya Shajn, Curt Backeberg, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Albert Préjean, and Ernesto Ambrosini. Among people deceased in 1975, August Dvorak ranks 191Before him are Arthur Bliss, Argemiro, Thomas Hart Benton, Carl O. Sauer, Antonio Vojak, and Mary Ure. After him are Charles Reidpath, Niginho, Carl Silfverstrand, Morgan Taylor, Pyotr Novikov, and László Németh.

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