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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Stark Draper has received more than 217,533 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Charles Stark Draper is the 615th most popular physicist (up from 633rd in 2019), the 6,271st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,298th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 47.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Stark Draper ranks 615 out of 717. Before him are Ali Javan, Tullio Regge, Ralph Kronig, Mario Livio, Harold Brown, and Toshiko Yuasa. After him are Ralph H. Fowler, John C. Slater, Wilhelm Hisinger, Julius Wess, William Higinbotham, and John Polkinghorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Charles Stark Draper ranks 220. Before him are Max Lorenz, Lajos Dinnyés, Suzanne Lilar, Bud Houser, Franco Rasetti, and Hermann Josef Abs. After him are Ramón J. Sender, Igor Ilyinsky, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Sid Atkinson, Ernesto Chaparro, and Otto Kaiser. Among people deceased in 1987, Charles Stark Draper ranks 165. Before him are Gerhard Fieseler, Alf Landon, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Jaroslav Bouček, Henk Badings, and James Coco. After him are Igor Ilyinsky, Joseph Höffner, John Mikaelsson, Igor Newerly, Solomana Kante, and Franjo Wölfl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 6,271 out of 18,182. Before him are Lawrence Summers (1954), Vernon A. Walters (1917), Billie Dove (1903), James Coco (1930), Mark Isham (1951), and Jessica Drake (1974). After him are Mel Ramos (1935), Washington Allston (1779), Krysten Ritter (1981), Jim Dine (1935), Mary Barra (1961), and Harriet Quimby (1875).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 127. Before him are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Harold Agnew (1921), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), and Harold Brown (1927). After him are John C. Slater (1900), William Higinbotham (1910), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Frederick Seitz (1911), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), and Leo Kadanoff (1937).

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