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James H. Wilkinson

1919 - 1986

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James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James H. Wilkinson is the 70th most popular computer scientist (down from 59th in 2019), the 2,391st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,127th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, James H. Wilkinson ranks 70 out of 245. Before him are Ron Rivest, Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Robert C. Martin, Leonard Adleman, and Larry Wall. After him are Jef Raskin, Richard M. Karp, Fred Brooks, Alfred Aho, Martin Fowler, and Ian Murdock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James H. Wilkinson ranks 142. Before him are Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Åke Seyffarth, Félix Gaillard, Galina Ustvolskaya, Tamara Toumanova, and Beate Uhse-Rotermund. After him are Briek Schotte, Paul de Man, Lisa Della Casa, Anne Buydens, Salomon Morel, and Robert Stack. Among people deceased in 1986, James H. Wilkinson ranks 117. Before him are Vitaly Abalakov, Raúl Prebisch, Valentin Kataev, Ruth Teitelbaum, John Bagot Glubb, and Artur London. After him are Nicholas Kaldor, Gregory Jarvis, Princess Anne of Orléans, Ivan Papanin, Étienne Mattler, and Fumiko Enchi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 2,391 out of 8,785. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson (1835), Cuthbert (635), Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), Lorna Wing (1928), Michael Bond (1926), and Catherine Carey (1523). After him are Vera Brittain (1893), Veronica Cartwright (1949), Dora Carrington (1893), Richard Hughes (1900), Richard of Chichester (1197), and Thomas Morley (1557).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 7. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), and Paul Graham (1964). After him are Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), and Demis Hassabis (1976).

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