Herman Hollerith
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About
American statistician who, in 1889, invented a machine to rapidly tabulate statistics, making him the father of modern automatic computation.
Before Fame
He earned a bachelor's and Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from Columbia University.
Trivia
The Tabulating Machine Company, which he founded, later merged to become IBM.
Family Life
He married Lucia Beverly Talcott in 1890.
Associated With
Another famous New York-born scientist like him was Abraham Maslow.
