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George Stibitz

1904 - 1995

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George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904 – January 31, 1995) was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Stibitz has received more than 157,032 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. George Stibitz is the 359th most popular inventor (down from 335th in 2019), the 7,949th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,196th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Stibitz ranks 359 out of 426. Before him are Frank J. Sprague, Edward Craven Walker, Peter Madsen, Almon Brown Strowger, Kazimierz Prószyński, and František Křižík. After him are John Milne, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Pitman, Johan Vaaler, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Amar Bose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, George Stibitz ranks 277. Before him are Ivor Montagu, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Rafael Méndez, Puck van Heel, Oliver Macdonald, and Sadi Irmak. After him are Hans Lewy, Carleton S. Coon, Francisco Garza Gutiérrez, Antero Kivi, Vladimir Makogonov, and Anton Janda. Among people deceased in 1995, George Stibitz ranks 261. Before him are Benjamin Mazar, Robertson Davies, Genrikh Kasparyan, Fischer Black, Giorgio Bocchino, and Sony Lab'ou Tansi. After him are Henry Roth, John Peters Humphrey, George Abbott, Sergei Grinkov, Margaret Woodbridge, and Paul A. Rothchild.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Stibitz ranks 7,949 out of 20,380. Before him are Sherry Lansing (1944), Catherine Coleman (1960), Devon Aoki (1982), Adam Maida (1930), Judah Folkman (1933), and Simon Guggenheim (1867). After him are Lee Arenberg (1962), Busby Berkeley (1895), Elaine Stritch (1925), Troy Kotsur (1968), Jerry Weintraub (1937), and Adam Silver (1962).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Stibitz ranks 95. Before him are John Fitch (1743), Oliver Evans (1755), Charles Darrow (1889), Jerry Lawson (1940), Frank J. Sprague (1857), and Almon Brown Strowger (1839). After him are Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Amar Bose (1929), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), and Margaret E. Knight (1838).

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