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Also Known As John Vincent Atanasoff
Born October 4, 1903 • New York
Died June 15, 1995 (aged 91) • Frederick • Maryland
Subjects Of Study differential equation
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
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Mauchly, John
John Mauchly
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Howard Aiken
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Francis Robbins Upton
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Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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Evangelista Torricelli
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Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
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Douglas R. Hartree
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
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Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
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Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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