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Klára Dán von Neumann

1911 - 1963

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Klára Dán von Neumann (née Dán; 18 August 1911 – 10 November 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klára Dán von Neumann is the 346th most popular mathematician (up from 567th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 385th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Klára Dán von Neumann ranks 346 out of 1,004Before her are Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Felix Bernstein, and Viggo Brun. After her are Viktor Bunyakovsky, Giambattista Benedetti, Gaston Julia, Andreas Osiander, Johannes Widmann, and Kiyosi Itô.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Klára Dán von Neumann ranks 104Before her are Zenkō Suzuki, Elizabeth Bishop, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teddy Kollek, Maria Reiter, and Jean-Pierre Aumont. After her are Andor Lilienthal, André Leroi-Gourhan, Shiing-Shen Chern, Simone Simon, Ishirō Honda, and Roberto Matta. Among people deceased in 1963, Klára Dán von Neumann ranks 62Before her are Otto Struve, William Carlos Williams, Ferenc Fricsay, Ngô Đình Nhu, Robert Stroud, and Georg Lindemann. After her are Jacobus Oud, Gustaf Gründgens, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, and Fazlollah Zahedi.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Klára Dán von Neumann ranks 224 out of 1,077Before her are Imre Schlosser (1889), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Teddy Kollek (1911), Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870), Arpad Elo (1903), and Ingenuus (200). After her are Lajos Portisch (1937), Paul Lukas (1894), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Hans Swarowsky (1899), László Bárdossy (1890), and Chaka of Bulgaria (1210).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Klára Dán von Neumann ranks 8Before her are Paul Erdős (1913), John G. Kemeny (1926), George Pólya (1887), Peter Lax (1926), Marcel Grossmann (1878), and Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930). After her are László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Rózsa Péter (1905), and Pál Turán (1910).