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Frances Spence

1922 - 2012

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Frances V. Spence (née Bilas; March 2, 1922 – July 18, 2012) was an American physicist and computer scientist. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC (the first electronic digital computer). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Spence has received more than 127,163 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Frances Spence is the 287th most popular engineer (down from 281st in 2019), the 6,921st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,266th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 24

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  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Frances Spence ranks 287 out of 389. Before her are Ransom E. Olds, Pierre-François Bouchard, Georgy Langemak, Hideo Itokawa, Burt Rutan, and Alan Shugart. After her are Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, Friedrich L. Bauer, Pat Symonds, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Frances Spence ranks 300. Before her are Yao Lee, Dora Doll, Aldo Ballarin, René Bader, José Juncosa, and Frédéric Rossif. After her are Vesna Parun, John Eisenhower, Barbara Hale, Riccardo Carapellese, Marin Preda, and Alfred G. Knudson. Among people deceased in 2012, Frances Spence ranks 297. Before her are István Rózsavölgyi, Dilhan Eryurt, Zalman King, Phyllis Diller, Chikage Awashima, and Nelson Prudêncio. After her are Juan Pereda, Gerry Anderson, Branko Kralj, Helga Vlahović, Patricia Medina, and J. Christopher Stevens.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Spence ranks 6,921 out of 20,380. Before her are Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), Dana Reeve (1961), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Gary Rossington (1951), Alan Shugart (1930), and Gilbert Kaplan (1941). After her are William Stevenson (1900), Bud Houser (1901), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), John L. Hennessy (1952), Mary Lou Williams (1910), and Steve Miller (1943).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Frances Spence ranks 30. Before her are Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Preston Tucker (1903), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Ransom E. Olds (1864), Burt Rutan (1943), and Alan Shugart (1930). After her are Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Frederick Terman (1900), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), and T. Keith Glennan (1905).

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