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Carver Mead

1934 - Today

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Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years. A pioneer of modern microelectronics, Mead has made contributions to the development and design of semiconductors, digital chips, and silicon compilers, technologies which form the foundations of modern very-large-scale integration chip design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carver Mead has received more than 203,878 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carver Mead is the 760th most popular physicist, the 12,629th most popular biography from United States and the 175th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carver Mead ranks 760 out of 717. Before him are Herbert Goldstein, Richard A. Muller, Howard Georgi, Ernest Moniz, John C. Baez, and Sylvia Fedoruk. After him are William Penney, Baron Penney, Edward Andrade, Jim Al-Khalili, Nathan Seiberg, Paul Ginsparg, and Sean M. Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Carver Mead ranks 478. Before him are Buta Singh, Mahendra Kapoor, Peter McParland, N. Scott Momaday, David Malouf, and Jerry Nelson. After him are Don Kirshner, Annette Crosbie, Alan Dundes, June Foulds, David Herd, and Willie Toweel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carver Mead ranks 12,629 out of 18,182. Before him are Thomas David Jones (1955), Sin Cara (1977), Shawn Lane (1963), Robert Osborne (1932), Brandon Teena (1972), and GZA (1966). After him are Troy Garity (1973), Anika Noni Rose (1972), Tom Verica (1964), Marcelo Balboa (1967), Brannon Braga (1965), and Norman Lear (1922).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Carver Mead ranks 175. Before him are Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972), Herbert Goldstein (1922), Richard A. Muller (1944), Howard Georgi (1947), Ernest Moniz (1944), and John C. Baez (1961). After him are Paul Ginsparg (1955), Sean M. Carroll (1966), Deborah S. Jin (1968), Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (1993), and Joseph Weber (2000).

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