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Konrad Zuse

1910 - 1995

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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer. Zuse was noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process control computer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konrad Zuse is the 51st most popular inventor (down from 44th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Germany (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Inventor.

Konrad Zuse is most famous for inventing the first working computer, the Z3.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Konrad Zuse ranks 51 out of 426. Before him are Herman Hollerith, Robert Fulton, Steve Wozniak, Karl Drais, George Westinghouse, and Douglas Engelbart. After him are Hiram Maxim, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Richard Trevithick, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Adam Opel, and Charles Goodyear.

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Among people born in 1910, Konrad Zuse ranks 18. Before him are Gloria Stuart, Irena Sendler, Jean Genet, Dominique Pire, Jacques Monod, and Django Reinhardt. After him are David Niven, Walter Schellenberg, Paul Flory, Kurt Meyer, Gerda Taro, and Chiang Ching-kuo. Among people deceased in 1995, Konrad Zuse ranks 18. Before him are Maurizio Gucci, Michael Ende, Milovan Đilas, Gunnar Nordahl, Dean Martin, and Gerald Durrell. After him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Christian B. Anfinsen, Teresa Teng, William Alfred Fowler, Harold Wilson, and Patricia Highsmith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Zuse ranks 475 out of 7,253. Before him are Ananda Mahidol (1925), Erich Kästner (1899), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Friedrich Fromm (1888), and Heinrich Mann (1871). After him are Joachim Peiper (1915), Louis the Child (893), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Johann Bayer (1572), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Konrad Zuse ranks 9. Before him are Nikolaus Otto (1832), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Hans Lippershey (1570), Werner von Siemens (1816), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), and Karl Drais (1785). After him are Adam Opel (1837), Emile Berliner (1851), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), and Hans von Ohain (1911).

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