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J. Presper Eckert

1919 - 1995

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John Adam Presper 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 336,251 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). J. Presper Eckert is the 186th most popular inventor (down from 175th in 2019), the 2,744th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,497th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, J. Presper Eckert ranks 186 out of 354Before him are Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, Friedrich Zander, Gerald Bull, George Pullman, and Royal Rife. After him are Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Charles Xavier Thomas, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Narcís Monturiol, Sandford Fleming, and Édouard Branly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, J. Presper Eckert ranks 93Before him are Uta Hagen, Pierre Soulages, Janko Bobetko, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Mitja Ribičič, and Ferdinand Kübler. After him are Marina Ginestà, Jean Lefebvre, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Hyman Minsky, Mario Bunge, and Red Buttons. Among people deceased in 1995, J. Presper Eckert ranks 89Before him are Pancho Gonzales, James Herriot, Abdul Ali Mazari, Annie Fischer, Kingsley Amis, and Arturo Frondizi. After him are Ida Lupino, Ann Dunham, Leila Mourad, Clair Cameron Patterson, Alexander Godunov, and Gabriel Urgebadze.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 2,744 out of 18,182Before him are Flannery O'Connor (1925), Douglas Trumbull (1942), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Joseph Valachi (1904), Royal Rife (1888), and John Milnor (1931). After him are Wilder Penfield (1891), Freddie King (1934), Edgar Snow (1905), Tracy Morgan (1968), Ronald Lauder (1944), and Jill St. John (1940).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 44Before him are Charles Martin Hall (1863), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), and Royal Rife (1888). After him are Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), Robert Cornelius (1809), and Larry Sanger (1968).