John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
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Lived 1926–1992, aged 66
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Updated 2026-06-11
John George Kemeny was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to György Marx he was one of "The Martians".
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