Max Newman

Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. He was Jewish. He started the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester. This laboratory made the first working modern computer. The computer stored programs in 1948. This computer was called the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.The Papers of Max Newman , St John's College LibraryThe Newman Digital Archive, St John's College Library & The University of Portsmouth

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