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Jay Miner

1932 - 1994

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Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994) was an American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers and as the "father of the Amiga". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jay Miner is the 357th most popular inventor (down from 323rd in 2019), the 8,231st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,424th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jay Miner ranks 357 out of 426. Before him are Kálmán Tihanyi, Albrecht Berblinger, Kazimierz Prószyński, John Fitch, Dan Bricklin, and Per Georg Scheutz. After him are Margaret E. Knight, Joseph Bramah, František Křižík, Phil Ramone, Orville Gibson, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Jay Miner ranks 385. Before him are John Flynn, Lewis Binford, Sándor Mátrai, Ramón Tapia, István Bilek, and Milunka Lazarević. After him are Neil Bartlett, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Eeles Landström, Robert H. Dennard, Bo Goldman, and Hjördis Nordin. Among people deceased in 1994, Jay Miner ranks 274. Before him are József Háda, Fernando de Santiago, Reinaldo Gorno, Medea Japaridze, Anita Lizana, and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. After him are Serge Blusson, Dack Rambo, Charles Mathiesen, Bud Houser, Lennart Klingström, and Ernst Lörtscher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Miner ranks 8,233 out of 20,380. Before him are Ina Balin (1937), Buster Crabbe (1908), Michael Tilson Thomas (1944), Dina Merrill (1923), Vic Damone (1928), and Matt Biondi (1965). After him are Nate Archibald (1948), Theodora Kroeber (1897), Gary Payton (1968), Joe Manganiello (1976), Andra Day (1984), and Jack Dorsey (1976).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Jay Miner ranks 91. Before him are Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Joseph Engelberger (1925), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Henry M. Leland (1843), John Fitch (1743), and Dan Bricklin (1951). After him are Margaret E. Knight (1838), Orville Gibson (1856), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Ken Olsen (1926), Frank J. Sprague (1857), and Amar Bose (1929).

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