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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 257,795 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Gene Amdahl is the 505th most popular physicist (down from 433rd in 2019), the 4,053rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,237th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gene Amdahl ranks 505 out of 851. Before him are Walther Ritz, Richard Mollier, Claude Pouillet, Théophile de Donder, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Edwin H. Land. After him are Giovanni Poleni, Gustave Trouvé, Andrei Linde, Theodore Hall, Anatoly Alexandrov, and William Edward Ayrton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gene Amdahl ranks 205. Before him are Władysław Bartoszewski, Albert Lamorisse, Tetsurō Tamba, Dorothy Dandridge, Luiz Bonfá, and Käbi Laretei. After him are Roy Salvadori, Jack Klugman, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Emile Habibi, and René Lévesque. Among people deceased in 2015, Gene Amdahl ranks 163. Before him are Władysław Bartoszewski, Jonah Lomu, Nils Christie, Natalia Molchanova, Richard Johnson, and Elena Obraztsova. After him are Czesław Kiszczak, Dragan Holcer, Chris Squire, Sergio Sollima, Richard Anthony, and Phil Taylor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Amdahl ranks 4,053 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothy McGuire (1916), Natacha Rambova (1897), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Pharoah Sanders (1940), and Robert Mulligan (1925). After him are Helen B. Taussig (1898), Kate Walsh (1967), Robert Smith (1757), James Mangold (1963), James Hillman (1926), and Anne Tyler (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gene Amdahl ranks 101. Before him are Alan Guth (1947), Clarence Zener (1905), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), and Edwin H. Land (1909). After him are Theodore Hall (1925), Lester Germer (1896), Alan Sokal (1955), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), and Edward Condon (1902).

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