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Lawrence Roberts

1937 - 2018

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Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American engineer Paul Baran. The ARPANET's principal designer was Bob Kahn who worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Roberts has received more than 11,227 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lawrence Roberts is the 425th most popular businessperson (down from 408th in 2019), the 5,793rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,408th in 2019) and the 139th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Lawrence Roberts ranks 425 out of 601Before him are Vincent J. McMahon, Jean-Michel Aulas, Charles Geschke, Lee Jae-yong, Bob Lazar, and John Houlding. After him are Elisabeth Abegg, Piero Dusio, Maurice Farman, Michael Dell, George Peabody, and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Lawrence Roberts ranks 291Before him are Rupiah Banda, Andrija Anković, Zhang Jie, Jørgen Leth, Yvonne Craig, and Jerry Weintraub. After him are Sandy Dennis, Dawn Fraser, José Augusto, Nikolay Drozdov, Jorge Cafrune, and Nélida Piñon. Among people deceased in 2018, Lawrence Roberts ranks 260Before him are Dave Holland, Elias M. Stein, Arie den Hartog, Sabahudin Kurt, Oliver Ivanović, and Marijan Beneš. After him are Morgan Tsvangirai, Sergio Pitol, Toshiko Fujita, Ringo Lam, David Douglas Duncan, and Verne Troyer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Roberts ranks 5,793 out of 18,182Before him are Nicholas Gonzalez (1976), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), Florence Lee (1888), Otto Warmbier (1994), William Gibson (1914), and Taylor Kinney (1981). After him are Tracy Chevalier (1962), Fanny Brice (1891), Maria Tallchief (1925), Sandra Bem (1944), Catherine Hardwicke (1955), and Roger Sessions (1896).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Lawrence Roberts ranks 139Before him are Samuel Brannan (1819), Muhtar Kent (1952), David Geffen (1943), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Charles Geschke (1939), and Bob Lazar (1959). After him are Michael Dell (1965), George Peabody (1795), Jerry Buss (1933), Helen Walton (1919), James Buchanan Duke (1856), and Milton S. Hershey (1857).