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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Edwin Catmull

1945 - Today

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Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Catmull has received more than 1,048,698 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Catmull is the 52nd most popular computer scientist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 3,548th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,383rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 52.49

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  • 26

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  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Edwin Catmull ranks 52 out of 201Before him are Warren Weaver, Pierre Bézier, Charles Bachman, Joseph Weizenbaum, Jay Wright Forrester, and Alan Perlis. After him are Vernor Vinge, Gil Amelio, James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Juris Hartmanis, and Jacques Vallée.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Edwin Catmull ranks 214Before him are Leonid Popov, Christophe, Antonio Cañizares Llovera, András Arató, Vernon Wells, and Aurore Clément. After him are Barry Bostwick, Stanisław Ryłko, Bianca Jagger, John Leslie, Roger Spottiswoode, and Anton Zeilinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Catmull ranks 3,548 out of 18,182Before him are Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Samuel Wilson (1766), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), John C. Breckinridge (1821), and Allen Iverson (1975). After him are Paul Gleason (1939), Brian Herbert (1947), Grote Reber (1911), Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), and Frederick William Franz (1893).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Edwin Catmull ranks 34Before him are Leslie Lamport (1941), Fred Brooks (1931), Warren Weaver (1894), Charles Bachman (1924), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), and Alan Perlis (1922). After him are Vernor Vinge (1944), Gil Amelio (1943), Larry Wall (1954), Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), and Dana Scott (1932).