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J. Presper Eckert

1919 - 1995

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John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay-line memory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. Presper Eckert is the 198th most popular inventor (up from 211th in 2019), the 3,252nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,145th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Inventor.

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Among inventors, J. Presper Eckert ranks 198 out of 426. Before him are Sequoyah, Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, and Garrett Morgan. After him are Georges Claude, Eunice Newton Foote, Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Josip Belušić, and Max Skladanowsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, J. Presper Eckert ranks 107. Before him are Amrita Pritam, Rie Mastenbroek, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Pierre Gamarra, Ahmed Abdallah, and Ferdinand Kübler. After him are Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hermann Gmeiner, Ginette Neveu, Merce Cunningham, and Silva Kaputikyan. Among people deceased in 1995, J. Presper Eckert ranks 103. Before him are Dirceu, Kingsley Amis, Ida Lupino, Mia Martini, Juan Carlos Onganía, and Georgy Beregovoy. After him are Sylvester Stadler, Srinagarindra, Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, Fred West, and Gisela Mauermayer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 3,252 out of 20,380. Before him are Jill Clayburgh (1944), Peter Gallagher (1955), Edna Parker (1893), Dinah Washington (1924), William Wallace Campbell (1862), and Berenice Abbott (1898). After him are Diane Baker (1938), Chuck Lorre (1952), Lindsey Graham (1955), John Ashton (1948), Rip Torn (1931), and Peter Coyote (1941).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, J. Presper Eckert ranks 55. Before him are Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), Sequoyah (1770), and Garrett Morgan (1877). After him are Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Royal Rife (1888), Melvil Dewey (1851), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Laurens Hammond (1895), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837).

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