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Grace Hopper

1906 - 1992

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Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grace Hopper is the 3rd most popular computer scientist (down from 2nd in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from United States (down from 88th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Grace Hopper was most famous for her work in the field of computer programming. She was a pioneer in the field of computer programming, and was the first person to develop a compiler for a computer programming language.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Grace Hopper ranks 3 out of 245. Before her are Alan Turing, and Richard Stallman. After her are Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Grace Hopper ranks 7. Before her are Leonid Brezhnev, Puyi, Adolf Eichmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After her are Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Luchino Visconti. Among people deceased in 1992, Grace Hopper ranks 3. Before her are Marlene Dietrich, and Isaac Asimov. After her are Alexander Dubček, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Mikhail Tal, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, and Francis Bacon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 118 out of 20,380. Before her are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), Samuel Morse (1791), Ezra Pound (1885), Frank Sinatra (1915), and Charles Manson (1934). After her are Herbert A. Simon (1916), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Nicolas Cage (1964), Debbie Reynolds (1932), Dr. Seuss (1904), and Paul Newman (1925).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Grace Hopper ranks 2. Before her are Richard Stallman (1953). After her are John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944).

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