PHYSICIST

Maurice Karnaugh

1924 - 2022

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Maurice Karnaugh (; October 4, 1924 – November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Karnaugh has received more than 126,672 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Maurice Karnaugh is the 490th most popular physicist (down from 479th in 2019), the 3,769th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,985th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Physicist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 490 out of 851. Before him are Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, John Leslie, Martin Knudsen, and Ivan Puluj. After him are Johann Heinrich Schulze, Gordon Gould, Alexei Starobinsky, William Robert Grove, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Raoul Pictet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 190. Before him are Girija Prasad Koirala, Jean-François Revel, Gohar Gasparyan, Fud Leclerc, Gevork Vartanian, and Isadore Singer. After him are Rudolf Barshai, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Marc Ferro, Nina Foch, Alain Bombard, and José Donoso. Among people deceased in 2022, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 192. Before him are Franciszek Pieczka, Liz Sheridan, Jack Higgins, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, Eduard Artemyev, and Manuel Ojeda. After him are Antonios Naguib, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Akira Takarada, Gaspard Ulliel, Valery Ryumin, and Ronnie Spector.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 3,769 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), David Foster Wallace (1962), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Tiger Woods (1975), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Isadore Singer (1924). After him are Jim Hall (1930), Lunalilo (1835), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), McCoy Tyner (1938), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), and Black Hawk (1767).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 97. Before him are Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Alan Guth (1947), and Clarence Zener (1905). After him are Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Edwin H. Land (1909), Gene Amdahl (1922), Theodore Hall (1925), and Lester Germer (1896).

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