Norbert Wiener
1894 CE–1964 CE · Columbia
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society. His work heavily influenced computer pioneer John von Neumann, information theorist Claude Shannon, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and others. Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize that all intelligent behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms that could possibly be simulated by machines, an important early step towards the development of modern artificial intelligence.
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- Lise Meitner· 1878 CE–1968 CE
- Otto Hahn· 1879 CE–1968 CE
- Max Born· 1882 CE–1970 CE
- Peter Debye· 1884 CE–1966 CE
- Niels Bohr· 1885 CE–1962 CE
- Erwin Schrödinger· 1887 CE–1961 CE
- C. V. Raman· 1888 CE–1970 CE
- Otto Stern· 1888 CE–1969 CE
- Richard Courant· 1888 CE–1972 CE
- Selman Waksman· 1888 CE–1973 CE
- James Chadwick· 1891 CE–1974 CE
- Arthur Compton· 1892 CE–1962 CE
- Meghnad Saha· 1893 CE–1956 CE
- Georges Lemaître· 1894 CE–1966 CE
- Satyendra Nath Bose· 1894 CE–1974 CE
- John Cockcroft· 1897 CE–1967 CE
- Leo Szilard· 1898 CE–1964 CE
- Howard Florey· 1898 CE–1968 CE
- Wolfgang Pauli· 1900 CE–1958 CE
- Enrico Fermi· 1901 CE–1954 CE
- John von Neumann· 1903 CE–1957 CE
- J. Robert Oppenheimer· 1904 CE–1967 CE
- George Gamow· 1904 CE–1968 CE
- Alan Turing· 1912 CE–1954 CE
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- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
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