William Higinbotham

William (Willy) A. Higinbotham (October 25, 1910 - November 10, 1994), a physicist, is credited with creating one of the first video games, Tennis For Two, which is similar to Ping Pong. He created it on an oscilloscope in 1958, while the Head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, to entertain visitors during visitor days at the national laboratory.

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He was also the first chairman of the Federation of American Scientists.

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He earned his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1932 and continued his studies at Cornell University and MIT. During World War II, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and headed the lab's electronics group in the latter years of the war.

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