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  <h1>John Vincent Atanasoff</h1> 
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  <h2>The father of the computer</h2>
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    <p class="caption">John Vincent Atanasoff standing outside Atanasoff Hall, 1988</p>
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<h3>John Atanasoff's Timeline:</h3>
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    <li><b>1903</b>- Born in Hamilton, New York</li>
    <li><b>1912</b>- Learnt to use slide rule,followed shortly by the study of logarithms, and subsequently completed high school at Mulberry High School in two years.</li>
    <li><b>1925</b>- received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, graduating with straight A's.</li>
    <li><b>1926</b>- Earned a master's degree in mathematics.</li>
    <li><b>1930</b>- Earned Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with his thesis, The Dielectric Constant of Helium.</li>
    <li><b>1936</b>- Atanasoff invented an analog calculator for analyzing surface geometry.</li>
    <li><b>1939</b>- Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was prototyped.</li>
    <li><b>1940</b>- Atanasoff first met Mauchly at  meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, where Mauchly was demonstrating his "harmonic analyzer", an analog calculator for analysis of weather data. Atanasoff told Mauchly about his new digital device and invited him to see it.</li>
    <li><b>1941</b>- Mauchly visited Atanasoff in Ames, Iowa for four days, staying as his houseguest.</li>
    <li><b>1942</b>- Atanasoff left Iowa State for a wartime assignment as Chief of the Acoustic Division.</li>
    <li><b>1943</b>- Mauchly visited Atanasoff multiple times in Washington and discussed computing theories.</li>
    <li><b>1945</b>- The U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of John von Neumann. Atanasoff was put in charge of the project.</li>
    <li><b>1946</b>- The NOL computer project was shut down due to lack of progress, again on the advice of von Neumann.</li>
    <li><b>1952</b>- He founded and led the Ordnance Engineering Corporation</li>
    <li><b>1954</b>- IBM patent attorney A.J. Etienne sought Atanasoff's help in breaking an Eckert–Mauchly patent on a revolving magnetic memory drum, having been alerted by Clifford Berry that the ABC's revolving capacitor memory drum may have constituted prior art.</li>
    <li><b>1956</b>- Became Aerojet's Atlantic Division president</li>
    <li><b>1960</b>- Atanasoff and his wife Alice moved to their hilltop farm in New Market, Maryland for their retirement</li>
    <li><b>1961</b>- He started another company, Cybernetics Incorporated, in Frederick, Maryland which he operated for 20 years.</li>
    <li><b>1973</b>- Decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a federal judge named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.</li>
    <li><b>1995</b>- Atanasoff died of a stroke at his home after a lengthy illness</li>
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    <h4>“To get ahead in the world you have to make a lot of noise, and maybe I didn't make enough.”</h4>
    <h5>John Vincent Atanasoff</h5>
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  <p class="info">For more information visit John Atanasoff's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff">Wikipedia page</a></p>
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