George Stibitz

Scientist, Award Winner

1904 – 1995

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Who was George Stibitz?

George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.

Stibitz was born in York, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor's degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master's degree from Union College in 1927, and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1930 from Cornell University.

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Born
Apr 20, 1904
York
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Cornell University
  • Union College
  • Denison University
Lived in
  • York
Died
Jan 31, 1995
Hanover

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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