# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-vincent-atanasoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:59:02.303Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-vincent-atanasoff"
name: "John Vincent Atanasoff"
slug: "john-vincent-atanasoff"
description: "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 be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer."
tagline: "American computer pioneer (1903-1995)"
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birthDate: "1903-10-04"
deathDate: "1995-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump