INVENTOR

Konrad Zuse

1910 - 1995

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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konrad Zuse has received more than 1,279,809 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Konrad Zuse is the 44th most popular inventor (down from 39th in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 312th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Inventor.

Konrad Zuse is most famous for inventing the first working computer, the Z3.

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  • 60

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Konrad Zuse ranks 44 out of 426. Before him are Richard Trevithick, Adolphe Sax, Frank Whittle, John Logie Baird, Ruth Handler, and Jimmy Wales. After him are Wilhelm Maybach, John Herschel, Hans Lippershey, Willis Carrier, Herman Hollerith, and Karl Drais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Konrad Zuse ranks 13. Before him are Irena Sendler, Gloria Stuart, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Django Reinhardt. After him are Jacques Monod, Eric Berne, Chiang Ching-kuo, Gerda Taro, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Walter Schellenberg. Among people deceased in 1995, Konrad Zuse ranks 11. Before him are Eugene Wigner, Michael Ende, Mikhail Botvinnik, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, and Gunnar Nordahl. After him are Dean Martin, Harold Wilson, Anatoly Dyatlov, Maurizio Gucci, Patricia Highsmith, and Hannes Alfvén.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Zuse ranks 362 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), Christian V of Denmark (1646), Paul Hindemith (1895), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Heinrich Schütz (1585), and Heinrich Mann (1871). After him are Ludwig Beck (1880), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Joachim Gauck (1940), and Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Konrad Zuse ranks 6. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Werner von Siemens (1816), and Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850). After him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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