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Gene Amdahl

1922 - 2015

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Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922 – November 10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gene Amdahl has received more than 242,509 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Gene Amdahl is the 433rd most popular physicist (down from 427th in 2019), the 3,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,211th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gene Amdahl ranks 433 out of 717. Before him are Rudolf Peierls, Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, and John Dollond. After him are Gaspard de Prony, Saul Perlmutter, Giovanni Battista Amici, Emil Wiechert, Bruno Rossi, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gene Amdahl ranks 168. Before him are Jackie Cooper, Micheline Presle, Michel Henry, Theo Albrecht, Mauro Bolognini, and Seymour Martin Lipset. After him are Vasko Popa, Adil Çarçani, Artemio Franchi, Günter Behnisch, John Christopher, and Corneille Guillaume Beverloo. Among people deceased in 2015, Gene Amdahl ranks 126. Before him are Geoffrey Lewis, Douglas Tompkins, Aleksei Gubarev, Chea Sim, Judith Malina, and Robert Conquest. After him are James Aldridge, Wim Ruska, Diana Douglas, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Doris Hart, and Moses Malone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Amdahl ranks 3,245 out of 18,182. Before him are Brenda Lee (1944), Chris Gardner (1954), Josh Hartnett (1978), Tia Carrere (1967), Anne McCaffrey (1926), and Stone Cold Steve Austin (1964). After him are Peter Cetera (1944), Max Baer (1909), Michael C. Hall (1971), Larry Niven (1938), Kamehameha IV (1834), and Wilson Pickett (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gene Amdahl ranks 86. Before him are Lyman Spitzer (1914), Chester Carlson (1906), Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), and John C. Mather (1946). After him are Saul Perlmutter (1959), Grote Reber (1911), Alan Sokal (1955), Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), and John Henry Schwarz (1941).

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