biography
| name: |
Atanasoff, John (Vincent)
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pronunciation:
[atanasof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–95)
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| biography:
| Physicist and computer pioneer, born in Hamilton, New York, USA. He studied at the University of Florida, Iowa State College, and the University of Wisconsin. In 1942, with the help of Clifford Berry (1918–63), he built an electronic calculating machine - the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) - one of the first calculating devices using vacuum tubes. |
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