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John von Neumann was a mathematician, computer scientist, physicist, and economist born in Budapest in 1903. He held citizenship in Hungary and the United States and worked for Princeton University, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the University of Hamburg, and the Institute for Advanced Study. His professional focus included functional analysis, operator theory, mathematics, and physics.

He participated in the Manhattan Project and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Medal of Freedom, the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the Bôcher Memorial Prize, and the Enrico Fermi Award. He was part of the group known as The Martians.

His notable works include the von Neumann cellular automaton, the Von Neumann neighborhood, the von Neumann universal constructor, and the von Neumann architecture. He was married to Klara Dan von Neumann and had a child named Marina von Neumann Whitman. He died of natural causes in Washington, D.C., in 1957.