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Pierre Bézier

1910 - 1999

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Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999; [pjɛʁ etjɛn bezje]) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. As an engineer at Renault, he became a leader in the transformation of design and manufacturing, through mathematics and computing tools, into computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling. Bézier patented and popularized the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces that are now used in most computer-aided design and computer graphics systems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Bézier is the 57th most popular computer scientist (up from 61st in 2019), the 2,828th most popular biography from France (up from 3,089th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Pierre Bézier ranks 57 out of 245. Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum, Bruce Perens, Allen Newell, Leonard Kleinrock, Leslie Lamport, and Alan Perlis. After him are James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Yann LeCun, Brian Kernighan, J. C. R. Licklider, and Vernor Vinge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pierre Bézier ranks 129. Before him are Fritz Leiber, Bill Pickering, Jane Bell, Heinz Hoffmann, Howlin' Wolf, and Richard Conte. After him are Rachel Kempson, Scatman Crothers, Carmine Coppola, Yusof Ishak, Helene Mayer, and Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli. Among people deceased in 1999, Pierre Bézier ranks 93. Before him are Yuri Knorozov, Roy Chiao, Sylvia Sidney, Peko Dapčević, Michel Petrucciani, and DeForest Kelley. After him are Ron Wyatt, Curtis Mayfield, Alphonse Matejka, Heinz G. Konsalik, David Ogilvy, and Karen Demirchyan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2,828 out of 6,770. Before him are Andréa Ferréol (1947), Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639), Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons (1606), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), and Philippe Nahon (1938). After him are Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Jacques Massu (1908), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Charles Floquet (1828), and Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Pierre Bézier ranks 2. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809). After him are Yann LeCun (1960), Jacques Vallée (1939), Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).

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