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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 215,503 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Henry Holland is the 88th most popular computer scientist (down from 69th in 2019), the 4,952nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,304th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John Henry Holland ranks 88 out of 245. Before him are Gil Amelio, Marlyn Meltzer, Jacques Vallée, Eugene Garfield, Larry Tesler, and Eric S. Raymond. After him are Ivar Jacobson, Mary Kenneth Keller, Manuel Blum, Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, and Adam Osborne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Henry Holland ranks 281. Before him are Jane Powell, Rolan Bykov, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Ruth Pfau, Vang Pao, and Ninón Sevilla. After him are Girija Devi, Bonnie Bartlett, Walter Berry, Antonietta Stella, Cecil Taylor, and Paek Nam-sun. Among people deceased in 2015, John Henry Holland ranks 217. Before him are Fred Thompson, Roddy Piper, Qiao Shi, Alex Rocco, Karl H. Pribram, and Ninón Sevilla. After him are Revaz Chkheidze, Nicholas Liverpool, Michael Blake, Dinkha IV, Theodore Bikel, and Karl Josef Becker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Henry Holland ranks 4,952 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack DeJohnette (1942), Eddie Lawson (1958), Larry Carlton (1948), A. Merritt (1884), Eric S. Raymond (1957), and Sylvanus Morley (1883). After him are Billie Joe Armstrong (1972), Alice Hamilton (1869), Ann Wilson (1950), Mathew Brady (1822), Rockmond Dunbar (1974), and Marianne Moore (1887).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John Henry Holland ranks 56. Before him are Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Gil Amelio (1943), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Eugene Garfield (1925), Larry Tesler (1945), and Eric S. Raymond (1957). After him are Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Ed Roberts (1941), Betty Holberton (1917), Jean Bartik (1924), Anita Borg (1949), and Adele Goldberg (1945).

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