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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 120,290 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Karnaugh is the 479th most popular physicist (down from 470th in 2019), the 3,996th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,753rd in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 479 out of 717. Before him are Claude Pouillet, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, John Leslie, Anatoly Alexandrov, and Konstantin Novoselov. After him are William Stanley Jr., Pierre Victor Auger, Otto Lehmann, Ernest Marsden, Jayant Narlikar, and Edoardo Amaldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 198. Before him are Philip Stone, Luděk Pachman, Josef Škvorecký, Marc Ferro, Janet Frame, and Jean-François Revel. After him are Riccardo Cucciolla, Nina Foch, Mutesa II of Buganda, John Hansen, Girija Prasad Koirala, and George Segal. Among people deceased in 2022, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 194. Before him are Herbert Achternbusch, Joe Turkel, Juris Hartmanis, Kitten Natividad, Joe E. Tata, and Jack Higgins. After him are Irene Cara, Vlado Milunić, Cristina Calderón, Manuel Esquivel, Pablo Milanés, and Antonios Naguib.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 3,996 out of 18,182. Before him are Joe E. Tata (1936), Anthony Franciosa (1928), Kenny G (1956), Bruce McGill (1950), Art Pepper (1925), and Glen A. Larson (1937). After him are Dolley Madison (1768), Tom Welling (1977), Schuyler Colfax (1823), Jack Lord (1920), Andrea True (1943), and Malcom McLean (1913).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 95. Before him are Alan Sokal (1955), Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898). After him are William Stanley Jr. (1858), Richard C. Tolman (1881), John G. Trump (1907), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), and Robert H. Dicke (1916).

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