August Dvorak

Scientist, Author

1894 – 1975

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Who was August Dvorak?

August Dvorak was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.

Dvorak and Dealey, along with Nellie Merrick and Gertrude Ford, wrote the book Typewriting Behavior, published in 1936. The book, currently not in print, is an in-depth report on the psychology and physiology of typing.

Dvorak was distantly related to the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. While the composer's name is pronounced, with the ř roughly as a simultaneous trilled and, August Dvorak's family in the U.S. pronounces it, with an English r.

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Born
May 5, 1894
Everett
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Employment
  • University of Washington
Died
Oct 10, 1975

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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