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Christine Darden

1942 - Today

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Christine Darden (born September 10, 1942, as Christine Mann) is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She had an M.S. in mathematics and had been teaching at Virginia State University before starting to work at the Langley Research Center in 1967. She earned a Ph.D. in engineering at George Washington University in 1983 and has published numerous articles in her field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christine Darden has received more than 249,751 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Christine Darden is the 853rd most popular mathematician (down from 773rd in 2019), the 10,751st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,343rd in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 40.26

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Christine Darden ranks 853 out of 823. Before her are Andrei Okounkov, Alberto Calderón, Simon Singh, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Christoph Gudermann, and Douglas McIlroy. After her are Branko Grünbaum, Neil Sloane, Phillip Griffiths, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Claire Voisin, and J. H. C. Whitehead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christine Darden ranks 585. Before her are Pedro Araya Toro, Dick Butkus, Jan Halvarsson, Ama Ata Aidoo, Salim Ahmed Salim, and Kenas Aroi. After her are Harald Norpoth, Judy Sheindlin, Nancy Richey, Richard Myers, Paul Churchland, and Bob Love.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christine Darden ranks 10,751 out of 18,182. Before her are Anthony W. Gardiner (1820), Richard Moll (1943), R. L. Burnside (1926), Meredith Brooks (1958), Bob Bryan (1978), and Elizabeth Marvel (1969). After her are Matt Lanter (1983), Linda Woolverton (1952), Daniel Handler (1970), Kari Byron (1974), Eddy Arnold (1918), and Richard A. Falk (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Christine Darden ranks 75. Before her are George Mostow (1923), Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Martin Davis (1928), Ken Ribet (1948), Michael Aschbacher (1944), and Douglas McIlroy (1932). After her are Phillip Griffiths (1938), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Bill Gosper (1943), Mary Ellen Rudin (1924), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), and Adele Goldstine (1920).

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