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 1,109,088 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Liviu Librescu is the 96th most popular computer scientist (down from 87th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Romania (down from 265th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Liviu Librescu ranks 96 out of 245. Before him are Mary Kenneth Keller, Manuel Blum, Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, Adam Osborne, and Yann LeCun. After him are John Draper, Karen Spärck Jones, Ed Roberts, Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, and Stephen Wolfram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Liviu Librescu ranks 324. Before him are Albert S. Ruddy, Richard Montague, Wilferd Madelung, Viktor Tsybulenko, Henri Coppens, and Pat McCormick. After him are Horst Bienek, Joachim Hansen, Hank Mobley, Babushka Lady, William R. Pogue, and Suraphol Sombatcharoen. Among people deceased in 2007, Liviu Librescu ranks 211. Before him are Carl-Henning Pedersen, Georg Buschner, Jean Stablinski, Jan Wolkers, Lloyd Alexander, and Kembo Uba Kembo. After him are John Winter, Joachim Hansen, Solveig Dommartin, Alan Ball Jr., Paulinho de Almeida, and Karen Spärck Jones.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Liviu Librescu ranks 297 out of 844. Before him are Lupu Pick (1886), Dumitru Prunariu (1952), Nicolae Ciucă (1967), Barbu Catargiu (1807), Peter Maffay (1949), and Nicolae Neagoe (1941). After him are George Coșbuc (1866), Alexandru Macedonski (1854), Emil Boc (1966), András Kovács (1925), Cristian Mungiu (1968), and Alexandra Maria Lara (1978).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Romania

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

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