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David Warren

1925 - 2010

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David Ronald de Mey Warren (20 March 1925 – 19 July 2010) was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and "the black box"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Warren has received more than 17,281 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Warren is the 408th most popular chemist (down from 386th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 90th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Chemist.

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  • 24

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, David Warren ranks 408 out of 602. Before him are Otto Ambros, John William Draper, Arthur Aikin, Fausto Elhuyar, Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Jennifer Doudna. After him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, John Walker, Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, and Nils Gabriel Sefström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, David Warren ranks 211. Before him are Justo Gallego Martínez, Zhores Medvedev, Matías González, Ilie Verdeț, Mike Connors, and Robert Mulligan. After him are Czesław Kiszczak, Otto Muehl, Theodore Hall, Carlo Rambaldi, José Napoleón Duarte, and Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh. Among people deceased in 2010, David Warren ranks 163. Before him are Werner Schroeter, Zoltán Varga, Oswaldo López Arellano, Jean Rollin, Panajot Pano, and Yuri Ilyenko. After him are Kevin McCarthy, Bernard Giraudeau, Bruno S., Allan Sandage, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, and Zilda Arns.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, David Warren ranks 102 out of 1,143. Before him are Banjo Paterson (1864), Jacki Weaver (1947), Edmund Barton (1849), Miranda Otto (1967), Bob Hawke (1929), and Vernon Wells (1945). After him are Bob Hewitt (1940), George Pell (1941), Julian McMahon (1968), Jack Crawford (1908), Natalie Imbruglia (1975), and Samuel Alexander (1859).

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Among CHEMISTS In Australia

Among chemists born in Australia, David Warren ranks 2. Before him are John Cornforth (1917).

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