John Vincent Atanasoff
American computer pioneer
Died when: 91 years 254 days (1100 months)Star Sign: Libra
John Vincent Atanasoff, OCM, (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor from mixed Bulgarian-Irish origin, best known for being 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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