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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Grace Hopper

1906 - 1992

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Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended by others to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. Prior to joining the Navy, Hopper earned a Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grace Hopper has received more than 5,237,993 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Grace Hopper is the 2nd most popular computer scientist, the 126th most popular biography from United States (down from 121st in 2019) and the most popular American Computer Scientist.

Grace Hopper was most famous for her work in the field of computer programming. She was a pioneer in the field of computer programming, and was the first person to develop a compiler for a computer programming language.

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  • 66

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  • 2.58

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Grace Hopper ranks 2 out of 201. Before her are Alan Turing. After her are Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Stallman, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth, George Dantzig, Linus Torvalds, and John McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Grace Hopper ranks 8. Before her are Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Puyi, Samuel Beckett, and Luchino Visconti. After her are Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Ilse Koch, Billy Wilder, and Roberto Rossellini. Among people deceased in 1992, Grace Hopper ranks 6. Before her are Marlene Dietrich, Isaac Asimov, Alexander Dubček, Willy Brandt, and Friedrich Hayek. After her are Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Mikhail Tal, and Francis Bacon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 126 out of 18,182. Before her are James Watson (1928), Ray Charles (1930), Sitting Bull (1831), Brad Pitt (1963), Phineas Gage (1823), and Isadora Duncan (1877). After her are Linus Pauling (1901), Clark Gable (1901), Dr. Seuss (1904), Sharon Tate (1943), William Faulkner (1897), and Kirk Douglas (1916).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 1. After her are Richard Stallman (1953), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), George Dantzig (1914), John McCarthy (1927), Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Ken Thompson (1943), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910).

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