William Higinbotham
Physicist, Video Game Developer
1910 – 1994
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Who was William Higinbotham?
William "Willy" A. Higinbotham was an American physicist. 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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