INVENTOR

Bill Atkinson

1951 - Today

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William "Bill" D. Atkinson (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer, computer programmer and photographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Atkinson has received more than 381,022 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bill Atkinson is the 391st most popular inventor (down from 337th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Bill Atkinson ranks 391 out of 426Before him are Robert S. Langer, Oleg Losev, John Shepherd-Barron, Mark Rober, Norman Joseph Woodland, and Robin Li. After him are Gary Fisher, George Beauchamp, Dean Kamen, Granville Woods, Bette Nesmith Graham, and Yvonne Brill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Bill Atkinson ranks 488Before him are Jean-Louis Borloo, Nenad Stekić, Scott Gorham, Mammootty, Pany Yathotou, and Marcel Dionne. After him are Roy A. Tucker, Lyn McClements, Jóannes Eidesgaard, Dean Kamen, Vytenis Andriukaitis, and Terry McDermott.

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