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Chuck Peddle

1937 - 2019

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Charles Ingerham Peddle (November 25, 1937 – December 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chuck Peddle has received more than 157,889 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Chuck Peddle is the 312th most popular engineer, the 8,874th most popular biography from United States and the 36th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Chuck Peddle ranks 312 out of 323Before him are Ove Arup, Willy Ley, Georgy Babakin, Hesham Qandil, Kevin Warwick, and Leon O. Chua. After him are Sidney Darlington, Pat Symonds, Anatoly Blagonravov, Gordon Bell, John Monash, and Pat Fry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Chuck Peddle ranks 423Before him are Alexandra Zabelina, Gorilla Monsoon, Tony Barton, Garrett Morris, Francis George, and Eddie Floyd. After him are Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Heinz Hornig, Del Harris, Veniamin Alexandrov, Guram Kostava, and Yuriy Poyarkov. Among people deceased in 2019, Chuck Peddle ranks 398Before him are Russi Taylor, Eduardo Nascimento, Raymond Leppard, Shivakumara Swami, Ivan Kizimov, and Nikolai Gorbachev. After him are Martin Feldstein, D. A. Pennebaker, Sara Danius, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Sigvard Ericsson, and Carmine Caridi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chuck Peddle ranks 8,874 out of 18,182Before him are Robert Ridgway (1850), Dan Gilroy (1959), Joan Leslie (1925), Hilary Hahn (1979), Charles Horton Peck (1833), and Janet Lynn (1953). After him are Ava Max (1994), David Raksin (1912), Lloyd Nolan (1902), Charles Hartshorne (1897), Robert B. Sherman (1925), and Martin Feldstein (1939).

Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Chuck Peddle ranks 36Before him are Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Alan Shugart (1930), Frances Spence (1922), Butler Lampson (1943), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), and Robert H. Dennard (1932). After him are Sidney Darlington (1906), Gordon Bell (1934), Robert Zubrin (1952), Tom Dowd (1925), John Houbolt (1919), and Ted Jensen (1954).