Dr. An Wang

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An Wang at age 68

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Hardware
	Magnetic Core Memory, pulse transfer controlling device

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Keywords
	Core Memory

Achievement

Invented Magnetic Core Memory, pulse transfer controlling device

Biography

An Wang emigrated from china in 1945. He became a US citizen in 1954. Founded Wang Labs with $15.000 in 1951

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An Wang at age of 20

He married with Lorraine Wang in 1949

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An Wang introduced his first computer product in 1949

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An Wang with his wife in appr 1969

1948 PhD for applied physics Harvard University

1951 Founded Wang Labs

1955 Awarded patent for a pulse transfer controlling device that made the magnetic core possible, which he also invented

1965 Introduced LOCI the first calculator that produces a logarithm in one single keystroke

Honors and awards

Last Updated on November 19, 2007

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Footnotes & References

1	pictures scanned from An Wangs autobiography
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