COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Pierre Bézier

1910 - 1999

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Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999; [pjɛʁ etjɛn bezje]) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. As an engineer at Renault, he became a leader in the transformation of design and manufacturing, through mathematics and computing tools, into computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bézier has received more than 172,001 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Pierre Bézier is the 61st most popular computer scientist (down from 47th in 2019), the 3,089th most popular biography from France (down from 2,709th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 53.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Pierre Bézier ranks 61 out of 245. Before him are Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, James H. Wilkinson, and Alfred Aho. After him are Ron Rivest, Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, Dana Scott, and Martin Hellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pierre Bézier ranks 144. Before him are Gerhard Schröder, Wolfgang Preiss, Joy Adamson, Louis Prima, Ernst Schäfer, and Heinrich Sutermeister. After him are Magda Olivero, Elmar Klos, Yekaterina Furtseva, Claire Trevor, Nathan Alterman, and Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1999, Pierre Bézier ranks 108. Before him are Oscar Cullmann, Jean Guitton, Petr Shelokhonov, Hendrick Chin A Sen, Dmitry Likhachov, and Dennis Viollet. After him are Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Morris West, Karekin I, Nahum Stelmach, Nise da Silveira, and Bob Peck.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 3,089 out of 6,770. Before him are Yves Meyer (1939), Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Armand Salacrou (1899), and Jean-François Revel (1924). After him are Jacques Hamel (1930), Francis Garnier (1839), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), and Serge Dassault (1925).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809). After him are Jacques Vallée (1939), Yann LeCun (1960), Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).

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