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 1,971,886 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Nolan Bushnell is the 49th most popular computer scientist (down from 39th in 2019), the 3,259th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,692nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Nolan Bushnell ranks 49 out of 245Before him are Amir Pnueli, J. C. R. Licklider, Joseph Weizenbaum, John Cocke, James Gosling, and Brian Kernighan. After him are Fred Brooks, Leslie Lamport, Geoffrey Hinton, Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, and Don Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Nolan Bushnell ranks 231Before him are James Turrell, Marika Green, Stanley Fischer, Jimmy Wang Yu, Sani Abacha, and Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne. After him are Mike Leigh, Rashid Sunyaev, Patrick Demarchelier, Maurice Bishop, Valery Nepomnyashchy, and Angélica María.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nolan Bushnell ranks 3,259 out of 20,380Before him are David Ausubel (1918), Dan Hedaya (1940), Emmylou Harris (1947), Warner Baxter (1889), Alan Guth (1947), and Paul Winfield (1939). After him are Bob Pettit (1932), Helen Kane (1904), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Jason Bateman (1969), Erika Eleniak (1969), and Ron Carter (1937).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Nolan Bushnell ranks 29Before him are Alan Perlis (1922), Frances E. Allen (1932), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Charles Bachman (1924), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), and John Cocke (1925). After him are Fred Brooks (1931), Leslie Lamport (1941), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Don Norman (1935), and Warren Weaver (1894).