1. William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist.
12 Facts About William Higinbotham
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William Higinbotham 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.
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William Higinbotham's father was a minister in the Presbyterian Church.
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William Higinbotham earned his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1932 and his studies at Cornell University.
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William Higinbotham worked on the radar system at MIT from 1941 to 1943.
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William Higinbotham's team created the bomb's ignition mechanism as well as measuring instruments for the device.
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William Higinbotham created the radar display for the experimental B-28 bomber.
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From 1974 until his death in 1994, William Higinbotham served as the technical editor of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, published by the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management.
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In 1947, William Higinbotham took a position at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked until his retirement in 1984.
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The game took William Higinbotham a few weeks to complete, and was a popular attraction at the show.
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William Higinbotham never patented Tennis for Two, though he obtained over 20 other patents during his career.
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William Higinbotham remained little interested in video games, preferring to be remembered for his work in nuclear nonproliferation.