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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 454,181 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Christopher C. Kraft Jr. is the 365th most popular inventor (down from 330th in 2019), the 9,702nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,399th in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 365 out of 354. Before him are John Whitehurst, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Lewis Howard Latimer, Bette Nesmith Graham, Frank J. Sprague, and Roger C. Field. After him are Charles Ammi Cutter, Peter Cooper, Mohamed M. Atalla, Arnold Orville Beckman, Richard Pearse, and Arthur Fry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 400. Before him are Giovanni Saldarini, Armando Peraza, Ruhi Sarıalp, Sofía Ímber, Joy Page, and Marianne Werner. After him are Norman Fell, Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Tapan Sinha, Vajiha Samadova, Ralph Miliband, and Maria Sander. Among people deceased in 2019, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 438. Before him are Vasil Metodiev, Heather Harper, Antal Bolvári, Gianfranco Leoncini, Bruno Nicolè, and Guy François. After him are Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Eugène Camara, Napoleon Chagnon, Muriel Pavlow, Shelley Morrison, and Ugo Colombo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 9,702 out of 18,182. Before him are George Finnegan (1881), Jenna Dewan (1980), Alan King (1927), Harry Turtledove (1949), Arthur Fiedler (1894), and Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915). After him are John O. Brennan (1955), Danny Ongais (1942), Taylor Schilling (1984), Loudon Wainwright III (1946), Chelsea Peretti (1978), and Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ranks 104. Before him are Charles Darrow (1889), George Beauchamp (1899), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), and Frank J. Sprague (1857). After him are Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), Peter Cooper (1791), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Arthur Fry (1931), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), and John F. Seitz (1892).

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