John Vincent Atanasoff, an influential American physicist and inventor, is best known for his pioneering role in developing the first electronic computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry ...

In 1889, when Ivan Atanasoff was thirteen years old, he emmigrated to the United States accompanied by an uncle. He later married Iva Lucena, a mathematics teacher. John Vincent Atanasoff was born ...

If every frustrated guy drinking bourbon in a bar was as productive as John Vincent Atanasoff, we'd probably have flying cars. The Iowa State University physics professor reportedly conceptualized ...

A brief ceremony honoring the Hamilton-born inventor of the computer, John Vincent Atanasoff, was held under cool, rainy skies Saturday, Oct. 8, at the “Welcome to Hamilton” sign on Route 12B ...