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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 462,133 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Dowd is the 325th most popular engineer (down from 300th in 2019), the 10,545th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,267th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 460k

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  • 40.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tom Dowd ranks 325 out of 323. Before him are Robert Zubrin, Viktor Kozin, Tommy Flowers, Vladimir Barmin, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, and C. H. Douglas. After him are Bob Bell, Sydney Camm, John Lombe, Mehdi Jomaa, Thomas Sopwith, and James Allison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Tom Dowd ranks 454. Before him are Eduardo Risso, Gloria DeHaven, Curt Lowens, Ted Lindsay, William Jones, and Warren Frost. After him are Heinz Ulzheimer, Robert Cormier, Frank Kameny, Roy Brown, Jimmy Dickinson, and Morgan Woodward. Among people deceased in 2002, Tom Dowd ranks 300. Before him are George Alec Effinger, Vladimir Vasyutin, Pierre Rapsat, Harry Hay, Pat Flaherty, and Marcel Hansenne. After him are Renato Pirocchi, Tadeusz Rut, Shirley Scott, Alex Hannum, Otis Blackwell, and Dave Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Dowd ranks 10,545 out of 18,182. Before him are Joyce DiDonato (1969), Lindsey Morgan (1990), Nicholas Katzenbach (1922), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Tom Forman (1893), and Meredith Monroe (1969). After him are Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), Simon Cameron (1799), Ed Boon (1964), Dick Butkus (1942), Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817), and Maxine Singer (1931).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Tom Dowd ranks 40. Before him are Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), Chuck Peddle (1937), Sidney Darlington (1906), Gordon Bell (1934), and Robert Zubrin (1952). After him are John Houbolt (1919), Ted Jensen (1954), Douglas H. Wheelock (1960), Jonathan James (1983), Randall Munroe (1984), and Alia Sabur (1989).

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