# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-higinbotham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:09:36.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-higinbotham"
name: "William Higinbotham"
slug: "william-higinbotham"
description: "William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display."
tagline: "American physicist (1910–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Higinbotham_Los_Alamos_identity_badge_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-10-22"
deathDate: "1994-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.056834884860363
  historical:           17.303284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump