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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Vincent Atanasoff has received more than 714,540 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). John Vincent Atanasoff is the 266th most popular physicist (down from 228th in 2019), the 1,082nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,043rd in 2019) and the 57th 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 266 out of 851. Before him are Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Daniel Rutherford. After him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Andrew Huxley, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Hugh David Politzer, and Johannes Rydberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 50. Before him are Bing Crosby, John Eccles, Andrei Grechko, Rudolf Abel, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, and Prince Charles, Count of Flanders. After him are Claudio Arrau, Giulio Natta, The French Angel, Yisrael Kristal, Vladimir Bartol, and Alonzo Church. Among people deceased in 1995, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 41. Before him are Aziz Nesin, Edda Mussolini, Roger Zelazny, Louis Malle, U Nu, and Rory Gallagher. After him are Pierre Schaeffer, Alonzo Church, Ernest Walton, Lita Grey, Carlos Monzón, and Ștefan Kovács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 1,082 out of 20,380. Before him are Brian Dennehy (1938), Percival Lowell (1855), David Caruso (1956), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Timothy McVeigh (1968), and John Heard (1946). After him are Piper Laurie (1932), Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Wesley Snipes (1962), and David Soul (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Vincent Atanasoff ranks 57. Before him are Leon M. Lederman (1922), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After him are Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), David Gross (1941), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931).

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