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Arpad Elo

1903 - 1992

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Arpad Emmerich Elo (né Élő Árpád Imre August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in 1925 and 1928, respectively, both from the University of Chicago, where he also played chess in the Chicago Chess League. Starting from 1926 until his retirement in 1969, he was a physics instructor at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arpad Elo is the 398th most popular physicist (up from 419th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 248th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arpad Elo ranks 398 out of 851. Before him are Hiroshi Amano, Moritz von Jacobi, Walter A. Shewhart, Stefan Hell, Jean-Antoine Nollet, and John Kerr. After him are George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, and Samuel Goudsmit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Arpad Elo ranks 99. Before him are Otto Abetz, Silvina Ocampo, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Nikos Zachariadis, Victor Brauner, and Elisha Cook Jr.. After him are Benjamin Spock, Mary Norton, Watchman Nee, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Adelbert Schulz, and Anny Ondra. Among people deceased in 1992, Arpad Elo ranks 81. Before him are Isidro Lángara, Muhammad Asad, Frederick William Franz, Dick York, Stella Adler, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. After him are Franziska Donner, Maria Reiter, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Mary Norton, Robert Muldoon, and Marisa Mell.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Arpad Elo ranks 222 out of 1,077. Before him are Ferenc Gyulay (1799), Stephan Burián von Rajecz (1851), Imre Schlosser (1889), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Teddy Kollek (1911), and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870). After him are Ingenuus (200), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Lajos Portisch (1937), Paul Lukas (1894), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), and Hans Swarowsky (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Arpad Elo ranks 6. Before him are Leo Szilard (1898), Edward Teller (1908), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), and Georg von Békésy (1899). After him are Ferenc Krausz (1962), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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