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John Mauchly

1907 - 1980

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John William Mauchly ( MAWK-lee; August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Together, Mauchly and Eckert started the first computer company, the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), which allowed them to further the development of fundamental computer concepts originally conceived by members of the 1945-46 ENIAC programming team, notably Jean Bartik and Kay McNulty, including subroutines, nesting, and the first low-level assembler. They also popularized the concept of the stored program, which was formalized in John von Neumann's widely-read First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945) and disseminated through the Moore School Lectures (1946). These publications influenced an explosion of computer development around the world in the late 1940s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Mauchly is the 422nd most popular physicist (down from 378th in 2019), the 3,186th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,283rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Mauchly ranks 422 out of 851. Before him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Robert W. Wood, Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, and Johann Andreas Segner. After him are Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, and Hantaro Nagaoka.

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Among people born in 1907, John Mauchly ranks 120. Before him are Heinz Brandt, Sabahattin Ali, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Charles Eames, William Steig, and Roger Peyrefitte. After him are George de Mestral, Ilona Elek, Sebastian Haffner, Pierre Pflimlin, Tino Rossi, and Ramón de la Fuente Leal. Among people deceased in 1980, John Mauchly ranks 92. Before him are Valko Chervenkov, Sergey Taboritsky, Olga Chekhova, Katia Mann, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, and Zygmunt Berling. After him are Friedrich Hossbach, Héctor José Cámpora, Alf Sjöberg, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Manlio Brosio, and Ernst Ocwirk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Mauchly ranks 3,186 out of 20,380. Before him are Dusty Hill (1949), Ken Carpenter (1913), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), George Chakiris (1934), Frederic Forrest (1936), and Téa Leoni (1966). After him are Anne Applebaum (1964), Christina Applegate (1971), Patricia Clarkson (1959), Bo Derek (1956), Monica Potter (1971), and Robert Hansen (1939).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Mauchly ranks 87. Before him are Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Robert W. Wood (1868). After him are Saul Perlmutter (1959), Alan Guth (1947), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Howard P. Robertson (1903), and Douglas Hofstadter (1945).

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