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Fernando J. Corbató

1926 - 2019

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Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando J. Corbató has received more than 163,706 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Fernando J. Corbató is the 414th most popular physician (down from 343rd in 2019), the 4,226th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,229th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Physician.

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  • 31

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  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Fernando J. Corbató ranks 414 out of 502Before him are Hiroshi Nakajima, Bernard de Jussieu, Emil Aarestrup, Kadambini Ganguly, William Stewart Halsted, and James Braid. After him are William Gull, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Oskar Minkowski, Kiyoshi Shiga, Hiraga Gennai, and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Fernando J. Corbató ranks 213Before him are Frank Finlay, Arnošt Lustig, Marian Jaworski, Dennis W. Sciama, Rudi Gutendorf, and André Delvaux. After him are Johanna Quandt, Julie Adams, Bal Thackeray, Julio Pérez, Richard Yates, and Bhupen Hazarika. Among people deceased in 2019, Fernando J. Corbató ranks 202Before him are Tania Mallet, Kazuo Koike, Rudi Gutendorf, Jacques Dupont, Josef Kadraba, and Carol Lynley. After him are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Richard Williams, Diahann Carroll, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Andrew G. Vajna, and Luciano De Crescenzo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fernando J. Corbató ranks 4,226 out of 18,182Before him are William Hoyt (1875), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Bob Balaban (1945), Terrence Howard (1969), and Margaret Sullavan (1909). After him are Charles Dvorak (1878), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Robert Lansing (1864), Robert Parish (1953), Cathy Berberian (1925), and Valerie Perrine (1943).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Fernando J. Corbató ranks 48Before him are Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Richard Axel (1946), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Crawford Long (1815), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), and William Stewart Halsted (1852). After him are Mehmet Oz (1960), Vivien Thomas (1910), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), Benjamin Rush (1745), and Jeffrey Ullman (1942).