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Howard H. Aiken

1900 - 1973

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Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard H. Aiken has received more than 309,188 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard H. Aiken is the 40th most popular engineer (down from 35th in 2019), the 1,047th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,008th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Engineer.

Howard H. Aiken is most famous for his work on the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Howard H. Aiken ranks 40 out of 389. Before him are Hugo Junkers, Villard de Honnecourt, Pavel Sukhoi, Felix Wankel, Ildefons Cerdà, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Anthony Fokker, Sergey Ilyushin, Marcello Gandini, William John Macquorn Rankine, Moshe Arens, and Vannevar Bush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Howard H. Aiken ranks 44. Before him are Ragnar Granit, Julien Green, Gladwyn Jebb, Anna Seghers, W. Edwards Deming, and Thomas Wolfe. After him are Pedro Cea, Raphael Lemkin, Edith Frank, Maria of Yugoslavia, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Maurice Thorez. Among people deceased in 1973, Howard H. Aiken ranks 52. Before him are Ingeborg Bachmann, W. H. Auden, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frances Marion, and Frank Costello. After him are Leo Strauss, Emmy Göring, Asger Jorn, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Otto Klemperer, and Adolf Strauss.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard H. Aiken ranks 1,047 out of 20,380. Before him are Ellen DeGeneres (1958), Laurence Fishburne (1961), Gordon Moore (1929), Buck Henry (1930), Alfred Hershey (1908), and Lance Henriksen (1940). After him are Muddy Waters (1913), Margaret Brown (1867), Chester Bennington (1976), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), and Gary Sinise (1955).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Howard H. Aiken ranks 4. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Leslie Groves (1896), and Jack Kilby (1923). After him are Vannevar Bush (1890), Henry Gantt (1861), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922).

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