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Maurice Karnaugh

1924 - 2022

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Maurice Karnaugh (; October 4, 1924 – November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Karnaugh is the 534th most popular physicist (down from 491st in 2019), the 4,990th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,769th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 534 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Poleni, Fabiola Gianotti, Heinz von Foerster, Leonid Mandelstam, Vikram Sarabhai, and Gustave Trouvé. After him are Leona Woods, Ludvig Lorenz, August Beer, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, William Robert Grove, and Ira Sprague Bowen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 239. Before him are Budge Patty, John Hansen, Klaus Huber, Luděk Pachman, Erik Balling, and György Lázár. After him are Jean Laplanche, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Vilgot Sjöman, Marc Ferro, Olga Gyarmati, and Marga López. Among people deceased in 2022, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 241. Before him are Shahabuddin Ahmed, Ole Ellefsæter, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Olavo de Carvalho, Phil Read, and Dragan Tomić. After him are L. Q. Jones, Javier Lozano Barragán, Herbert Mullin, Philippe Streiff, Bob Rafelson, and Kenneth Welsh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 4,990 out of 20,380. Before him are D'arcy Wretzky (1968), Queen Latifah (1970), Anne Haney (1934), Albert Gutterson (1887), Steve Franken (1932), and Kelly Rutherford (1968). After him are Lena Horne (1917), Evan Williams (1972), Leona Woods (1919), Kevin Young (1966), Howard Schultz (1953), and Cameron Boyce (1999).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Maurice Karnaugh ranks 110. Before him are Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Serber (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Lester Germer (1896), Clyde Cowan (1919), and David J. Griffiths (1942). After him are Leona Woods (1919), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Grote Reber (1911), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Robert H. Dicke (1916).

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