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William Higinbotham

William Higinbotham
William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994)

William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

25 October 1910

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