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Jay Miner

1932 - 1994

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Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994) was an American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers and as the "father of the Amiga". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jay Miner has received more than 141,547 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jay Miner is the 323rd most popular inventor (down from 308th in 2019), the 6,425th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,249th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 140k

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  • 48.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jay Miner ranks 323 out of 426. Before him are Heinrich Gerber, Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, and Patricia Bath. After him are Harry Ferguson, John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, Bernard Lown, and Rostislav Alexeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Jay Miner ranks 315. Before him are Lola Beltrán, Alfonso Arau, Paul Anderson, Masten Gregory, Bo Goldman, and Robert B. Parker. After him are Anatoly Roshchin, Lyudvig Chibirov, Vasili Kuznetsov, József Csermák, Paul J. Weitz, and Luis Ayala. Among people deceased in 1994, Jay Miner ranks 229. Before him are Helena Rasiowa, Sigmund Ruud, Augusts Voss, Paul Anderson, Joseph Iléo, and François Marty. After him are Rudolf Raftl, Rudolf Firkušný, Hermann Josef Abs, Maureen Starkey Tigrett, József Háda, and William Higinbotham.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Miner ranks 6,425 out of 20,380. Before him are Dominique Dunne (1959), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), James J. Jeffries (1875), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Bob Bondurant (1933), and Bill Sharman (1926). After him are Russell M. Nelson (1924), Diana Muldaur (1938), Bob Sapp (1973), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Chris Wedge (1957), and Eugene Burton Ely (1886).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jay Miner ranks 82. Before him are Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), and Patricia Bath (1942). After him are Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Orville Gibson (1856), Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Beulah Louise Henry (1888), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), and Joy Mangano (1956).

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