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Jon Postel

1943 - 1998

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Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jon Postel has received more than 573,874 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jon Postel is the 189th most popular engineer (up from 212th in 2019), the 4,106th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,547th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jon Postel ranks 189 out of 323. Before him are Vladimir Petlyakov, Louis Dollo, Agustín de Betancourt, Joseph Strauss, Nikolay Kamov, and Gene Kranz. After him are William Playfair, W. Ross Ashby, Seymour Cray, Evgeny Paton, Bassel al-Assad, and Vasily Mishin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jon Postel ranks 277. Before him are Sirajuddin of Perlis, Negasso Gidada, Angélica María, Soledad Miranda, Robert Crumb, and Akinori Nakayama. After him are Iñaki Sáez, Pablo Milanés, Antal Dunai, Gary Burton, Ignacio Ramonet, and Inna Churikova. Among people deceased in 1998, Jon Postel ranks 127. Before him are Jack Lord, Keisuke Kinoshita, Jean Leray, Mahbub ul Haq, Phil Hartman, and Hermann Prey. After him are Bertil Nordahl, Gérard Grisey, Mariano Martín, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Samuel Eilenberg, and Antonio Saura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jon Postel ranks 4,106 out of 18,182. Before him are James P. Allison (1948), Michael Buffer (1944), Robert Crumb (1943), Brad Bird (1957), Eve Meyer (1928), and Larry Tesler (1945). After him are Alice Paul (1885), Pharrell Williams (1973), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), Chuck Connors (1921), and James Ingram (1952).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Jon Postel ranks 15. Before him are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Eugene Stoner (1922), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Gene Kranz (1933). After him are Seymour Cray (1925), Charles F. Brush (1849), Preston Tucker (1903), Ed Heinemann (1908), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), and Eugene Polley (1915).

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