Harold Locke Hazen
Harold Locke Hazen
1901-1980
American engineer who with Vannevar Bush invented the electromechanical analog computer that could solve sixth-order differential equations and three simultaneous second-order differential equations. A lifelong professional colleague of Bush at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked on the atomic bomb, the Rapid Arithmetic machine, and the Rockefeller differential analyzer.
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