John von Neumann

John von Neumann was born Neumann János in Budapest in 1903, the son of a banker. As a child he showed remarkable abilities in mathematics and memory. He studied chemical engineering in Berlin and Zurich and at the same time earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Budapest. After teaching in Germany he moved to the United States in 1930 and in 1933 became one of the first professors at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He made major contributions to set theory, the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics and many other fields. With the economist Oskar Morgenstern he wrote Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944), which founded game theory. During the Second World War he worked on the Manhattan Project. His 1945 report on the EDVAC computer described a design in which programs are stored in memory alongside data, an approach still known as the von Neumann architecture. He later served on the Atomic Energy Commission. He died of cancer in Washington, D.C., in 1957.

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Faith: Born into a Jewish family; he was baptized a Catholic in 1930. Source: Wikipedia