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John Vincent Atanasoff

1903 - 1995

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John Vincent Atanasoff (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Vincent Atanasoff is the 314th most popular physicist (down from 267th in 2019), the 1,635th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,082nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Physicist.

John Vincent Atanasoff is most famous for inventing the first digital computer in the 1930s.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 314 out of 851. Before him are Rainer Weiss, Andre Geim, Otto Robert Frisch, Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, and Daniel C. Tsui. After him are Steven Chu, Hagen Kleinert, Pierre Louis Dulong, Shuji Nakamura, Félix Savart, and John Tyndall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 66. Before him are Raymond Radiguet, Empress Kōjun, Uichiro Hatta, Vincente Minnelli, Kim Chaek, and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. After him are Vladimir Bartol, Irving Stone, Maria Reiche, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Louis Leakey, and Gregory Goodwin Pincus. Among people deceased in 1995, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 58. Before him are Ko Takamoro, César Rodríguez Álvarez, James Meade, Roger Zelazny, Mária Telkes, and Rory Gallagher. After him are Ernest Gellner, Krešimir Ćosić, Carlos Monzón, Günter Guillaume, Rose Kennedy, and Yves Congar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 1,635 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Fogel (1926), Dick Fosbury (1947), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Bessie Smith (1894), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Jean Webster (1876). After him are Barry Levinson (1942), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Dave Brubeck (1920), Aileen Wuornos (1956), and Gloria Gaynor (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 70. Before him are Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), and Henry Way Kendall (1926). After him are Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John G. Trump (1907), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), and Frank Wilczek (1951).

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