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John Vincent Atanasoff 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. 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…
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science · American computer pioneer (1903–1995) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · mathematician · computer scientist · engineer · also John Vincent Atanasoff, John V. Atanasoff, Atanasoff
Born 4 October 1903 · Died 15 June 1995 · Q314308
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And bestowed annually by the President of Bulgaria to a young Bulgarian for achievements in the field of computer and information technologies and the information society of Bulgaria
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Of a stroke at his home after a lengthy illness
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Died 1995-06-15.
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Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1990).
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Won Holley Medal (1985).
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Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1984).
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Awarded Honorary doctorate of the University of Florida (1974).
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Awarded Order of Cyril and Methodius, 1st Class (1970).
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Started another company, Cybernetics Incorporated, in Frederick, Maryland which he operated for 20 years
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Atanasoff and his wife Alice moved to their hilltop farm in New Market, Maryland for their retirement
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Founded and led the Ordnance Engineering Corporation, selling the company to Aerojet General Corporation in 1956 and becoming Aerojet's Atlantic Division president
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Atanasoff left Iowa State for a wartime assignment as Chief of the Acoustic Division with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) in Washington, D
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Invented an analog calculator for analyzing surface geometry
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By earning a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with his thesis, The Dielectric Constant of Helium
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Atanasoff received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida
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In Hamilton, New York to an electrical engineer and a school teacher
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Born 1903-10-04.
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Ivan immigrated to the United States with his uncle
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In the village of Boyadzhik, close to Yambol, then in the Ottoman Empire
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