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W. Ross Ashby

1903 - 1972

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William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Ross Ashby has received more than 134,890 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). W. Ross Ashby is the 216th most popular engineer (down from 189th in 2019), the 2,507th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,368th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Engineer.

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  • 58.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, W. Ross Ashby ranks 216 out of 389. Before him are François Hennebique, Agustín de Betancourt, Émile Lemoine, Louis Dollo, Yuri Artsutanov, and André Waterkeyn. After him are Charles F. Brush, Ma Jun, Georgy Beriev, Seymour Cray, Ed Heinemann, and Eugène Belgrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, W. Ross Ashby ranks 181. Before him are Barbara Hepworth, André Maschinot, Lili Kraus, Misuzu Kaneko, Johann Horvath, and Ary Barroso. After him are Adolph Gottlieb, Georgy Beriev, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Claude Dauphin, Siegfried Kasche, and Ward Bond. Among people deceased in 1972, W. Ross Ashby ranks 128. Before him are Max Aub, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Joseph Cornell, Rudolf Belling, and Stanislaus Kobierski. After him are Lee Beom-seok, Alfons Gorbach, Günter Eich, Miriam Hopkins, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Deniz Gezmiş.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. Ross Ashby ranks 2,507 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Murray (1987), Laurence Doherty (1875), Hugh Bonneville (1963), James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), Ralph Abercromby (1734), and Joanne Whalley (1961). After him are Æthelheard of Wessex (750), Carl Cox (1962), Peter Atkins (1940), Guy Burgess (1911), Andrew Lang (1844), and Tony Abbott (1957).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, W. Ross Ashby ranks 21. Before him are Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Smeaton (1724), John Hughes (1814), and André Waterkeyn (1917). After him are Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), Robert W. Paul (1869), and Pat Symonds (1953).

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