The Computer and the Brain

John von Neumann

1903–1957 · Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist

• Albert Einstein Award
• Enrico Fermi Award
• Professor at IAS Princeton
• Professor at Princeton

Profession

Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor

Worked at

Princeton, IAS Princeton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Hamburg

Studied at

ETH Zürich, Göttingen, Eötvös Loránd University

Studied under

Lipót Fejér

Prizes

Albert Einstein Award (1956), Enrico Fermi Award (1956), Fellow of the Econometric Society (1947), Bôcher Memorial Prize (1938), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1945), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1947), Silliman Memorial Lectures (1955), Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (1956), Medal of Freedom (1956), Financial Times Person of the Year (1999)

Designed the computer layout almost every computer still uses.

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