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J. Presper Eckert

1919 - 1995

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John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Presper Eckert has received more than 360,804 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). J. Presper Eckert is the 211th most popular inventor (down from 186th in 2019), the 3,145th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,737th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, J. Presper Eckert ranks 211 out of 426. Before him are Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, and Yuan Longping. After him are Gerald Bull, Robert Metcalfe, Helmut Gröttrup, John Wesley Hyatt, Artur Fischer, and George Washington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, J. Presper Eckert ranks 109. Before him are Vera Aceva, Toni Turek, Raymond Smullyan, Ferdinand Kübler, Hennes Weisweiler, and Ferruccio Valcareggi. After him are Morteza Motahhari, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Artur Fischer, Bernhard Wicki, Anatoly Dobrynin, and Vikram Sarabhai. Among people deceased in 1995, J. Presper Eckert ranks 109. Before him are Kingsley Amis, Bobby Riggs, Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, Masashi Watanabe, and Fred West. After him are Annie M. G. Schmidt, Erik Nilsson, Matti Pellonpää, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Vladimír Dzurilla, and Viktoria Brezhneva.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 3,145 out of 20,380. Before him are Marie Tharp (1920), Victoria Woodhull (1838), Dean Rusk (1909), Janet Jagan (1920), Wilder Penfield (1891), and Fred Rogers (1928). After him are Dabbs Greer (1917), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), John Cocke (1925), Paul Robeson (1898), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Bill Gates Sr. (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 51. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Raymond Damadian (1936), and Melvil Dewey (1851). After him are Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Walter Hunt (1796), George Pullman (1831), Marcian Hoff (1937), and Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924).

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