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Jerry Pournelle

1933 - 2017

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Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Pournelle has received more than 721,381 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jerry Pournelle is the 6,159th most popular writer (down from 5,722nd in 2019), the 10,478th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,589th in 2019) and the 780th most popular American Writer.

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  • 21

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  • 2.18

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  • 3.78

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jerry Pournelle ranks 6,159 out of 7,302. Before him are John Addington Symonds, Jaime Bayly, E. W. Hornung, Daniel Kehlmann, Ernest Lehman, and Irena Krzywicka. After him are Charles Olson, Henry Jenkins, Cecelia Ahern, Varsha Adalja, Jun Maeda, and Frank Harris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jerry Pournelle ranks 487. Before him are Leszek Drogosz, Constand Viljoen, Johannes Schaaf, Kathryn Crosby, Mark Jones, and Ruzena Bajcsy. After him are Boris Tatushin, David McCullough, Jenő Hámori, Roy Clark, Tom Price, and Lloyd Price. Among people deceased in 2017, Jerry Pournelle ranks 529. Before him are Lars-Erik Skiöld, Cipriano Chemello, Cy Young, Giorgio Capitani, Adolph Kiefer, and Spartaco Landini. After him are Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Larissa Volpert, Frank Schepke, Josip Weber, Len Wein, and Tore Eriksson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Pournelle ranks 10,478 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), William B. Lenoir (1939), Ernest Lehman (1915), Laurie Bird (1952), Joseph Mascolo (1929), and Kurt Wimmer (1964). After him are Charles Olson (1910), Slim Whitman (1923), Claudia Christian (1965), Randy Matson (1945), Henry Jenkins (1958), and David Lindley (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jerry Pournelle ranks 780. Before him are Kevin J. Anderson (1962), David Halberstam (1934), Patricia A. McKillip (1948), John Logan (1961), Walker Percy (1916), and Ernest Lehman (1915). After him are Charles Olson (1910), Henry Jenkins (1958), Theodore Roethke (1908), Robert Creeley (1926), Anthony Doerr (1973), and George Saunders (1958).

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