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John G. Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist
1926 – 1992aged 66
John G. Kemeny co-developed BASIC in 1964 with Thomas Kurtz, a programming language designed to be simple enough for students with no technical background, which helped bring computing into ordinary college classrooms years before personal computers existed. He went on to serve as president of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and later chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.