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John Henry Holland

1929 - 2015

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John Henry Holland (February 2, 1929 – August 9, 2015) was an American scientist and professor of psychology and electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Henry Holland has received more than 205,813 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. John Henry Holland is the 69th most popular computer scientist (down from 64th in 2019), the 4,316th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,310th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 210k

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  • 50.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Henry Holland ranks 69 out of 201. Before him are Larry Tesler, Gary Kildall, Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, Mary Kenneth Keller, and John Draper. After him are John Cocke, Ron Rivest, Judea Pearl, James H. Wilkinson, Leonard Adleman, and Ed Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Henry Holland ranks 237. Before him are Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, István Kertész, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Patricia Routledge, Jean-Denis Bredin, and Hong Song-nam. After him are Selim Hoss, Hind Rostom, Slavko Avsenik, Ulla Jacobsson, Vang Pao, and Cecil Taylor. Among people deceased in 2015, John Henry Holland ranks 172. Before him are Hyon Yong-chol, Esther Brand, Gerald Götting, Hans Erni, Johanna Quandt, and Elizabeth Wilson. After him are Roberto M. Levingston, Xu Caihou, Mike Porcaro, James Salter, Moira Orfei, and Richard Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Henry Holland ranks 4,316 out of 18,182. Before him are Harry Hamlin (1951), Lizzie Magie (1866), Ted Nugent (1948), Eric Heiden (1958), Stanley Williams (1953), and Daron Malakian (1975). After him are Marlon Jackson (1957), Nancy Marchand (1928), Florence Harding (1860), John Cocke (1925), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), and Chuck Daly (1930).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John Henry Holland ranks 42. Before him are Gil Amelio (1943), Larry Wall (1954), Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), and Mary Kenneth Keller (1913). After him are John Cocke (1925), Ron Rivest (1947), Leonard Adleman (1945), Ed Roberts (1941), Martin Hellman (1945), and Stephen Cook (1939).

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