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Leon O. Chua

1936 - Today

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Leon Ong Chua (; Chinese: 蔡少棠; pinyin: Cài Shǎotáng; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai Shao-t'ang; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. He has contributed to nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural network theory.He is the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit one of the first and most widely known circuits to exhibit chaotic behavior, and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the memristor. Thirty-seven years after he predicted its existence, a working solid-state memristor was created by a team led by R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon O. Chua has received more than 157,715 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Leon O. Chua is the 334th most popular engineer (down from 309th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Philippines (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Filipino Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leon O. Chuas by language

Over the past year Leon O. Chua has had the most page views in the with 19,022 views, followed by Chinese (7,500), and German (1,115). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (77.05%), Cebuano (59.20%), and Egyptian Arabic (47.24%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Leon O. Chua ranks 334 out of 389. Before him are Da-Wen Sun, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Octave Chanute, Aldo Costa, Anatoly Blagonravov, and Charles Joseph Minard. After him are Otmar Szafnauer, John Houbolt, Chuck Peddle, R. J. Mitchell, Tommy Flowers, and Harry Ricardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Leon O. Chua ranks 502. Before him are Lize Marke, Tommy Steele, Ivo Stefanoni, Marino Klinger, Michael Dertouzos, and Eleonore Schwarz. After him are Nils Nilsson, Carl Kaufmann, René Ferrier, Dick Cavett, John Tchicai, and Sergio Navarro.

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In Philippines

Among people born in Philippines, Leon O. Chua ranks 61 out of 155. Before him are Wenceslao Padilla (1949), Dolphy (1928), James Cooke Brown (1921), Jose Tomas Sanchez (1920), Luis Taruc (1913), and Fernando Poe Jr. (1939). After him are Aileen Baviera (1959), Reggie Lee (1975), Gabriel Elorde (1935), Tony Settember (1926), Apl.de.ap (1974), and Freddie Aguilar (1953).

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Among ENGINEERS In Philippines

Among engineers born in Philippines, Leon O. Chua ranks 1. 

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