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Chuck Peddle

1937 - 2019

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Charles Ingerham Peddle (November 25, 1937 – December 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chuck Peddle is the 347th most popular engineer (down from 337th in 2019), the 11,332nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,965th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Chuck Peddle ranks 347 out of 389. Before him are Julius Kühn, R. J. Mitchell, Harry Ricardo, Anatoly Blagonravov, Pat Symonds, and Tommy Flowers. After him are Pavel Pavel, Willy Rampf, Bob Bell, Mehdi Jomaa, Willy Ley, and Vladimir Barmin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Chuck Peddle ranks 522. Before him are Jenő Kamuti, Isabelle Daniels, Little Willie John, Marlo Thomas, Michel Stievenard, and George Steele. After him are Paul Stookey, Paul Hawkins, Veniamin Alexandrov, Maryvonne Dupureur, Yashwant Sinha, and Bruce Johnstone. Among people deceased in 2019, Chuck Peddle ranks 521. Before him are Eddie Money, Abdul Hamid, Andre Matos, Alexander Volkov, Jerry Herman, and W. Morgan Sheppard. After him are Peter McNamara, Lothar Kobluhn, Ted Lindsay, Shelley Morrison, Ivor Broadis, and Rosa María Britton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chuck Peddle ranks 11,334 out of 20,380. Before him are Dave Franco (1985), Christie Pearce (1975), Artis Gilmore (1949), Jeff Kaplan (1972), Kevin Williamson (1965), and Lloyd Price (1933). After him are Steven Lisberger (1951), Jeff Dunham (1962), Brandi Rhodes (1983), Bob Burns (1950), Barbara Cochran (1951), and Hilary Hahn (1979).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Chuck Peddle ranks 41. Before him are Sidney Darlington (1906), Preston Tucker (1903), Gordon Bell (1934), Beatrice Hicks (1919), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), and T. Keith Glennan (1905). After him are Robert R. Gilruth (1913), Tom Dowd (1925), Robert Zubrin (1952), David S. Johnson (1945), John Houbolt (1919), and Douglas H. Wheelock (1960).

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