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Seymour Cray

1925 - 1996

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Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seymour Cray has received more than 641,974 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Seymour Cray is the 220th most popular engineer (down from 190th in 2019), the 4,687th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,200th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Engineer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Seymour Cray ranks 220 out of 389. Before him are Yuri Artsutanov, André Waterkeyn, W. Ross Ashby, Charles F. Brush, Ma Jun, and Georgy Beriev. After him are Ed Heinemann, Eugène Belgrand, Léon Serpollet, Kenneth Nichols, Charles Renard, and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Seymour Cray ranks 239. Before him are Doris Roberts, Jacques Fatton, Kirill Lavrov, Luis Herrera Campins, Konrad Wolf, and Nina Lobkovskaya. After him are Theodore Levitt, Lennart Bergelin, Philippe Jaccottet, Ernst Jandl, Shehu Shagari, and John Neville. Among people deceased in 1996, Seymour Cray ranks 160. Before him are Ryōtarō Shiba, Chen Jingrun, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Bernhard Klodt, Reinhard Libuda, and Mikael Tariverdiev. After him are Endel Puusepp, Trần Văn Trà, Heriberto Herrera, Og Mandino, Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, and Imre Kovács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 4,687 out of 20,380. Before him are Otto Warmbier (1994), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Richard Yates (1926), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), and Estelle Harris (1928). After him are Michael Shannon (1974), Marta Kauffman (1956), Peter Jacobson (1965), Esai Morales (1962), Ed Ablowich (1913), and Frankie Faison (1949).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Seymour Cray ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Strauss (1870), Eugene Stoner (1922), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), and Charles F. Brush (1849). After him are Ed Heinemann (1908), Kenneth Nichols (1907), Aron Ralston (1975), Jon Postel (1943), Butler Lampson (1943), and Eugene Polley (1915).

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