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William Higinbotham

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William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist who lived from 22 October 1910 to 10 November 1994. 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.

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1910 1
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Source Wikipedia: William Higinbotham

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1. Wikipedia: William Higinbotham
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    October 22, 1910
  • Associated With: Video Games, Lead sentence
    was an American physicist
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Tennis for Two - Wikipedia
Works Created: Tennis for Two, Infobox: designer
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William Higinbotham
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