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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 121,510 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. W. Ross Ashby is the 191st most popular engineer (up from 208th in 2019), the 2,374th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,464th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

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  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, W. Ross Ashby ranks 191 out of 323. Before him are Agustín de Betancourt, Joseph Strauss, Nikolay Kamov, Gene Kranz, Jon Postel, and William Playfair. After him are Seymour Cray, Evgeny Paton, Bassel al-Assad, Vasily Mishin, Semyon Lavochkin, and Adolphe Alphand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, W. Ross Ashby ranks 157. Before him are Fumiko Hayashi, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Louis Seigner, Bix Beiderbecke, Earl Hines, and Joseph Cornell. After him are Gaito Gazdanov, Ona Munson, Peppino De Filippo, Rudolf Wolters, Lili Kraus, and W. V. D. Hodge. Among people deceased in 1972, W. Ross Ashby ranks 117. Before him are Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Cecil Day-Lewis, Max Aub, Vladimir Durković, and Joseph Cornell. After him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Lee Beom-seok, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, August Zaleski, Erik Eriksen, and Rudolf Belling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. Ross Ashby ranks 2,374 out of 7,765. Before him are Patrick Gordon (1635), James Guillaume (1844), Pauline Moran (1947), Alfred Edwards (1850), Tania Mallet (1941), and Peg Entwistle (1908). After him are Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Claude Choules (1901), John Hick (1922), Walter Map (1140), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), and James Nasmyth (1808).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, W. Ross Ashby ranks 20. Before him are Robert Stephenson (1803), Hertha Ayrton (1854), John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), and William Playfair (1759). After him are André Waterkeyn (1917), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), and James B. Francis (1815).

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