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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

1924 - 2019

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Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture. His protégé Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center today ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher C. Kraft Jr. has received more than 474,126 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Christopher C. Kraft Jr. is the 231st most popular inventor (up from 365th in 2019), the 3,612th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,680th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 470k

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  • 53.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 231 out of 426. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Alexander Parkes, Aurel Stodola, Marcian Hoff, and Hubert Cecil Booth. After him are Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Genrich Altshuller, L. L. Langstroth, Pavel Yablochkov, and Georges Hébert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 180. Before him are István Nyers, Johannes Mario Simmel, Ramón Castro Ruz, Élias Sarkis, Aleksandar Tišma, and Yuri Orlov. After him are Werner Kohlmeyer, John Hansen, Max Roach, Girija Prasad Koirala, Jean-François Revel, and Gohar Gasparyan. Among people deceased in 2019, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 178. Before him are Camilo Sesto, René Auberjonois, Goro Shimura, Josef Kadraba, José Luis Brown, and Andrew G. Vajna. After him are Momir Bulatović, Édith Scob, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, David Koch, Ross Perot, and Syd Mead.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 3,612 out of 20,380. Before him are Geoffrey Lewis (1935), William L. Shirer (1904), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), Kevin Sorbo (1958), Dick Wolf (1946), and Ethan Suplee (1976). After him are Martha Chase (1927), Gina Gershon (1962), James Denton (1963), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Ronnie Van Zant (1948), and Maurice Sendak (1928).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 57. Before him are J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), and Marcian Hoff (1937). After him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Laurens Hammond (1895), Robert Cornelius (1809), and Glenn Curtiss (1878).

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