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Clifford Berry

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Clifford Berry was an American graduate student in physics at Iowa State College who worked with John Atanasoff to design and build the Atanasoff-Berry Computer between 1939 and 1942, contributing much of its detailed engineering. Work on the machine stopped when Atanasoff and Berry left for wartime assignments, and neither man patented it.

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Birth Year
1918 1
Death Year
1963 1
Nationality
American 1
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The Computer, Inventions

Why this is disputed. Berry built the Atanasoff-Berry Computer's detailed engineering alongside Atanasoff between 1939 and 1942; the same 1973 federal ruling that credited Atanasoff applies to their joint work.

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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp. (1973)
1973Invented: The ComputerView the Source
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