COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Stephen Wolfram

1959 - Today

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Stephen Wolfram ( WUUL-frəm; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Wolfram has received more than 1,717,939 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Wolfram is the 102nd most popular computer scientist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 3,032nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,887th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 3.66

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  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Stephen Wolfram ranks 102 out of 245Before him are Liviu Librescu, John Draper, Karen Spärck Jones, Ed Roberts, Betty Holberton, and Jean Bartik. After him are Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, Adele Goldberg, Robert W. Floyd, Kristen Nygaard, and Eugene Kaspersky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Stephen Wolfram ranks 198Before him are Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Jaime Rodríguez, Susanna Hoffs, Steven Knight, Jorginho Putinatti, and Fernando Chalana. After him are Nizar Rayan, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nicole Brown Simpson, Alexander Lebedev, and Anthony LaPaglia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Wolfram ranks 3,032 out of 8,785Before him are Allan Ramsay (1713), Jerome Flynn (1963), Billie Whitelaw (1932), Fred Pentland (1883), David Almond (1951), and Martin McDonagh (1970). After him are Anthony Harvey (1930), John Keegan (1934), Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), Naveen Andrews (1969), Patrick Doyle (1953), and Jean Shrimpton (1942).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Stephen Wolfram ranks 9Before him are Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Robin Milner (1934), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935). After him are Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), David Marr (1945), Kathleen Booth (1922), Martin Fowler (1963), and Gary McKinnon (1966).