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Charles Stark Draper

1901 - 1987

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Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Beginning in the 1940s, Draper developed inertial guidance systems for aircraft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Stark Draper has received more than 231,005 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Charles Stark Draper is the 641st most popular physicist (down from 615th in 2019), the 6,445th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,258th in 2019) and the 137th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Stark Draper ranks 641 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Landé, Tullio Regge, Victor J. Stenger, Harriet Brooks, Gerald Guralnik, and Isaak Khalatnikov. After him are Ralph Kronig, Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, and William Higinbotham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Charles Stark Draper ranks 236. Before him are Ondino Viera, Gérard Blitz, Norah Borges, Otto Heckmann, Aleksandrs Čaks, and Sergey Obraztsov. After him are Sam Spiegel, Hermann Josef Abs, Mildred Davis, Arthur Samuel, Frank Churchill, and Kwon Ki-ok. Among people deceased in 1987, Charles Stark Draper ranks 172. Before him are Ted Moore, Jaroslav Bouček, Alf Landon, John Mikaelsson, Igor Newerly, and Gerhard Fieseler. After him are Robert Preston, Alexandru Borbely, Uwe Barschel, James Jesus Angleton, Franjo Wölfl, and Igor Ilyinsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 6,445 out of 20,380. Before him are Virginia Hall (1906), Roscoe Lockwood (1875), Aaron Sorkin (1961), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Earl Tupper (1907), and Preston Sturges (1898). After him are Robert Preston (1918), James Jamerson (1936), Ruth Orkin (1921), Louise Lasser (1939), Joe Hunt (1919), and Frank Silva (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 137. Before him are Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Victor J. Stenger (1935), and Gerald Guralnik (1936). After him are William Higinbotham (1910), Lee Smolin (1955), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), John C. Slater (1900), and Frederick Seitz (1911).

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