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John Vincent Atanasoff

Native name: John Vincent Atanasoff, Джон Винсънт Атанасов

Also known as: John V. Atanasoff

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

1903-10-04 • Birth Sign: Libra

Citizenship:

United States

Death date:

1995-06-15 (91 years old)

Short Bio:

John Vincent Atanasoff (in bulgarian: Джон Винсент Атанасов, romanized: Džon Vinsent Atanasov, October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College (now known as Iowa State University). Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer.

His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

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Science and academia Engineering and technology physicist inventor university teacher mathematician computer scientist engineer Hamilton United States