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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Peter Norton

1943 - Today

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Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Norton has received more than 515,166 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Norton is the 104th most popular computer scientist (down from 98th in 2019), the 6,174th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,927th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Peter Norton ranks 104 out of 201. Before him are Edmund M. Clarke, John Hopcroft, Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, and Evan Williams. After him are Scott Fahlman, Robert Fano, Yann LeCun, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Kenneth E. Iverson, and James H. Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Peter Norton ranks 395. Before him are Peter Sinfield, Bob Hite, Jamie Gillis, Andrej Bajuk, Brian Ferneyhough, and Terry Venables. After him are Harley Race, Christopher Priest, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Lucius Shepard, Giancarlo De Sisti, and Domenico Calcagno.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Norton ranks 6,174 out of 18,182. Before him are Margaret O'Brien (1937), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Colleen Atwood (1948), Ollie Johnston (1912), Guy Kawasaki (1954), and Cassandra Peterson (1951). After him are Anna Harrison (1775), Jan Sterling (1921), Joe Sample (1939), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Maurice Costello (1877), and Stan Hansen (1949).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Peter Norton ranks 64. Before him are Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), John Hopcroft (1939), Betty Holberton (1917), and Evan Williams (1972). After him are Scott Fahlman (1948), James H. Clark (1944), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jean Bartik (1924), Adele Goldberg (1945), and John L. Hennessy (1952).

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