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Tom Dowd

1925 - 2002

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Thomas John Dowd (October 20, 1925 – October 27, 2002) was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Dowd has received more than 500,555 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Dowd is the 350th most popular engineer (down from 323rd in 2019), the 11,032nd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,522nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tom Dowd ranks 350 out of 389. Before him are Vladimir Barmin, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Viktor Kozin, Ivan Artobolevsky, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, and Ralph Bagnold. After him are Sergey Volkov, Mehdi Jomaa, Gordon Bell, Kevin Warwick, Pat Fry, and Willy Rampf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tom Dowd ranks 491. Before him are Gordon George Avery, Grigory Mkrtychan, Eric Fleming, Martin David Kruskal, P. Bhanumathi, and Swami Rama. After him are Colette Marchand, Edward F. Moore, Fernand Decanali, Bob Tinning, Phillip V. Tobias, and William Jones. Among people deceased in 2002, Tom Dowd ranks 322. Before him are Ted Demme, Sam Snead, George Alec Effinger, Satish Dhawan, Tadeusz Rut, and Pratima Barua Pandey. After him are Renato Pirocchi, Marga Petersen, Jam Master Jay, Krishan Kant, Jürgen Werner, and Dave Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Dowd ranks 11,032 out of 20,380. Before him are Elliott Nugent (1896), Clifford Jordan (1931), Michael Chabon (1963), Allan Arbus (1918), Harriet Hosmer (1830), and Richard Taruskin (1945). After him are Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), William Schallert (1922), Dick Button (1929), Chad Coleman (1974), Cornelia Fort (1919), and Debbie Gibson (1970).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Tom Dowd ranks 42. Before him are T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack Parsons (1914), John Houbolt (1919), Chuck Peddle (1937), Sidney Darlington (1906), and Robert Zubrin (1952). After him are Gordon Bell (1934), Robert R. Gilruth (1913), David S. Johnson (1945), Beatrice Hicks (1919), Henry M. Morris (1918), and Ted Jensen (1954).

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