COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Don Norman

1935 - Today

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Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is an American researcher, professor, and author. Norman is the director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Norman has received more than 696,339 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Don Norman is the 55th most popular computer scientist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 3,541st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,921st in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Don Norman ranks 55 out of 245. Before him are Nolan Bushnell, Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, Geoffrey Hinton, Edwin Catmull, and Vernor Vinge. After him are Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, James H. Wilkinson, Alfred Aho, and Pierre Bézier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Don Norman ranks 176. Before him are Elga Andersen, Vladica Popović, Seymour Cassel, Shūji Terayama, Zeev Sternhell, and Milena Vukotic. After him are Lola Novaković, Geoffrey Lewis, Martti Talvela, Ghita Nørby, Letizia Battaglia, and Akihiro Miwa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Norman ranks 3,541 out of 20,380. Before him are Louis Prima (1910), Jimmy McLane (1930), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Larry Niven (1938), Robert Lansing (1864), and Carl Sandburg (1878). After him are Richard Beymer (1938), Paul Gleason (1939), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Jim Brown (1936), Barbara Hendricks (1948), and Rosemary Clooney (1928).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Don Norman ranks 34. Before him are John Cocke (1925), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Fred Brooks (1931), Leslie Lamport (1941), Edwin Catmull (1945), and Vernor Vinge (1944). After him are Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), Ron Rivest (1947), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and Charles P. Thacker (1943).

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