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John G. Kemeny

1926 - 1992

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John George Kemeny (born Kemény János György; May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to György Marx he was one of "The Martians". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John G. Kemeny is the 144th most popular mathematician (up from 391st in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Hungary (up from 271st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John G. Kemeny ranks 144 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau, Annie S. D. Maunder, Zu Chongzhi, Henri Lebesgue, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky. After him are Gabriel Lamé, George Pólya, Lars Ahlfors, Joseph Liouville, John Tate, and Georg von Peuerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, John G. Kemeny ranks 58. Before him are Abdus Salam, Maria Schell, Clifford Geertz, George Habash, Tony Bennett, and Vivian Maier. After him are Murray Rothbard, Margot Frank, Masatoshi Koshiba, Abdoulaye Wade, Peter Lax, and Kim Jae-gyu. Among people deceased in 1992, John G. Kemeny ranks 33. Before him are Aribert Heim, Nureddin al-Atassi, David Bohm, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Peyo, and Günther Anders. After him are Kaysone Phomvihane, Samuel Reshevsky, Takeshi Inoue, César Manrique, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, and Denny Hulme.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, John G. Kemeny ranks 101 out of 1,077. Before him are Sándor Ferenczi (1873), Felix Salten (1869), József Mindszenty (1892), Theodore von Kármán (1881), Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), and Zoltán Czibor (1929). After him are Samuel Aba (990), George Pólya (1887), Pál Teleki (1879), Loránd Eötvös (1848), Peter Lax (1926), and György Cziffra (1921).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, John G. Kemeny ranks 3. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), and Paul Erdős (1913). After him are George Pólya (1887), Peter Lax (1926), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), and Endre Szemerédi (1940).

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