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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bézier has received more than 160,641 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Pierre Bézier is the 47th most popular computer scientist (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,718th most popular biography from France (down from 2,376th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Pierre Bézier ranks 47 out of 201Before him are Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, Don Norman, Leslie Lamport, Fred Brooks, and Warren Weaver. After him are Charles Bachman, Joseph Weizenbaum, Jay Wright Forrester, Alan Perlis, Edwin Catmull, and Vernor Vinge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pierre Bézier ranks 124Before him are Enrique Guaita, Howlin' Wolf, Magda Olivero, Viktors Arājs, Roy J. Plunkett, and Johan Ferrier. After him are Suleiman Frangieh, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Claire Trevor, Louis Prima, Ernst Schäfer, and Josef Klaus. Among people deceased in 1999, Pierre Bézier ranks 94Before him are Alf Ramsey, Viacheslav Chornovil, Curtis Mayfield, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Jean Guitton, and András Hegedüs. After him are Bob Peck, Karen Demirchyan, Oscar Cullmann, George Mosse, Ron Wyatt, and Morris West.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2,718 out of 6,011Before him are Jean François de Troy (1679), André Dussollier (1946), Zaz (1980), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), and Louis Lavelle (1883). After him are Diana Vreeland (1903), Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (1487), Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015), Émile Combes (1835), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), and Henri Pélissier (1889).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

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