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John Von Neumann
John Von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest. His father was a
banker. John was a child prodigy. At the age of 6, he could divide two
8-digit numbers in his head. At 8, he mastered calculus; by 12 he was at the
graduate level in mathematics. At 17, his father tried to get him to become
something more financially practical then a mathematician. John agreed to
study chemistry along with mathematics. He studied chemistry in Berlin and
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…ored programs led to some of
the technology used today. With his new ideas the old machines being used
had to be rewired.
>From 1950 to 1955, he was a member of the Armed Forces Special Weapons
Project in Washington, DC. In 1956 he received the Enrico Fermi Award from
the Atomic Energy Commission, which he was appointed too. At this time he
founded out he had an incurable cancer. John von Neumann died in 1957.
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