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Paul Baran

1926 - 2011

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Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of modern digital communication. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Baran is the 158th most popular inventor (down from 136th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Paul Baran ranks 158 out of 426. Before him are Mary Anderson, Peter Henlein, Robert Moog, Friedrich Zander, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, and Joseph Monier. After him are Christopher Latham Sholes, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Elizabeth Holmes, Zacharias Janssen, Oliver Lodge, and Georg Luger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Paul Baran ranks 136. Before him are Maria Teresa de Filippis, Peter Graves, Yevgeny Leonov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Marian Jaworski, and Norman Jewison. After him are Don Rickles, Riz Ortolani, Andrea Kékesy, Peter Shaffer, Elias Hrawi, and Ray Price. Among people deceased in 2011, Paul Baran ranks 96. Before him are Warren Christopher, Harold Garfinkel, Pinetop Perkins, Ange-Félix Patassé, Danielle Mitterrand, and Lyudmila Gurchenko. After him are Vasily Alekseyev, Archduke Felix of Austria, Shigeo Yaegashi, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Hidemaro Watanabe, and Raúl Ruiz.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Paul Baran ranks 50 out of 368. Before him are Francysk Skaryna (1486), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Lucjan Żeligowski (1865), and Vseslav of Polotsk (1029). After him are Yevno Azef (1869), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Mikhail Borodin (1884), and Otto Schmidt (1891).

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Among inventors born in Belarus, Paul Baran ranks 1. 

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