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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 269,601 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Christine Darden is the 791st most popular mathematician (up from 850th in 2019), the 7,656th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,728th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 22

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  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Christine Darden ranks 791 out of 1,004. Before her are Joseph Keller, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, Charles Howard Hinton, Cédric Villani, Horace Lamb, and Erich Hecke. After her are Morris Kline, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Grigore Moisil, Pyotr Novikov, Francesco Brioschi, and Andrzej Mostowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christine Darden ranks 514. Before her are Petar Kirov, Philippe Gondet, Néstor Togneri, Michael Giles, Klaus Beer, and Meave Leakey. After her are Bernard Darniche, Shere Hite, Gennady Logofet, Arrigo Miglio, Salim Ahmed Salim, and Johny Schleck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christine Darden ranks 7,656 out of 20,380. Before her are Jason Schwartzman (1980), James Dashner (1972), John M. Clayton (1796), Richard Masur (1948), Leland Orser (1960), and Kenny Drew (1928). After her are John Billingsley (1960), Randy Johnson (1963), Darlene Love (1941), Ken Curtis (1916), Ruth Brown (1928), and Hayden Panettiere (1989).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Christine Darden ranks 56. Before her are Rudy Rucker (1946), Gilbert Strang (1934), Martin Davis (1928), Hassler Whitney (1907), Edward O. Thorp (1932), and Joseph Keller (1923). After her are Morris Kline (1908), Douglas McIlroy (1932), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Gregory Chaitin (1947), and Curtis T. McMullen (1958).

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