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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Liviu Librescu

1930 - 2007

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Liviu Librescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈlivju liˈbresku]; Hebrew: ליביו ליברסקו; August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liviu Librescu has received more than 1,065,349 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Liviu Librescu is the 87th most popular computer scientist (down from 68th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Romania (down from 241st in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Liviu Librescu ranks 87 out of 201. Before him are Rasmus Lerdorf, David A. Huffman, Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, Eric S. Raymond, and Richard M. Karp. After him are Ruth Teitelbaum, Eugene Kaspersky, Robert W. Floyd, Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolfram, and Marlyn Meltzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Liviu Librescu ranks 292. Before him are Edward Woodward, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Robert Evans, Vlatko Pavletić, Estela de Carlotto, and Julio Abbadie. After him are Jack Angel, Chris Barber, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Thomas Williams, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, and Egon Bondy. Among people deceased in 2007, Liviu Librescu ranks 195. Before him are Isidore Isou, Veikko Karvonen, Vlatko Pavletić, Stuart Rosenberg, Mark St. John, and Ronald Speirs. After him are Carl-Henning Pedersen, Kirill Lavrov, Egon Bondy, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Luis Herrera Campins, and Paulinho de Almeida.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Liviu Librescu ranks 265 out of 665. Before him are Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (1832), Ștefan Luchian (1868), Emil Racoviță (1868), Dimitrie Sturdza (1833), Isidore Isou (1925), and Ștefan Barbu (1908). After him are Barbu Catargiu (1807), Nicolae Ciucă (1967), Lupu Pick (1886), Marius Lăcătuș (1964), Victor Pițurcă (1956), and Dumitru Prunariu (1952).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Romania

Among computer scientists born in Romania, Liviu Librescu ranks 1. 

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