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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Nolan Bushnell

1943 - Today

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Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nolan Bushnell has received more than 1,881,588 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Nolan Bushnell is the 39th most popular computer scientist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 2,699th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,371st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 54.88

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  • 37

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  • 3.87

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  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Nolan Bushnell ranks 39 out of 201Before him are J. C. R. Licklider, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, Ken Kutaragi, Maurice Wilkes, and Brian Kernighan. After him are Allen Newell, Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, Don Norman, Leslie Lamport, and Fred Brooks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Nolan Bushnell ranks 178Before him are Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Joanna Shimkus, Ian Kershaw, David Morrell, Dominik Duka, and Nicholas Negroponte. After him are Wallace Shawn, Dragan Nikolić, José Ángel Iribar, Masayuki Uemura, Raphael, and Mike Leigh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nolan Bushnell ranks 2,699 out of 18,182Before him are Paul Strand (1890), Robert Conrad (1935), John Stockton (1962), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Cheryl Ladd (1951), and Erich Segal (1937). After him are Ira Gershwin (1896), Stella Adler (1901), Michael DeBakey (1908), Dyan Cannon (1937), Ted Nelson (1937), and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Nolan Bushnell ranks 23Before him are Jef Raskin (1943), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Barbara Liskov (1939), and J. C. R. Licklider (1915). After him are Allen Newell (1927), Jack Dorsey (1976), Frances E. Allen (1932), Don Norman (1935), Leslie Lamport (1941), and Fred Brooks (1931).

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