(Cambridge EDSAC)
1897–1954
Role: Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge
Responsibility: Facilitated collaboration between Cambridge University and Lyons in the development of LEO
Hartree was an eminent Cambridge scientist who played a crucial role in the development of LEO after the trip to the USA, Herman Goldstine at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton wrote to Hartree about Lyons’ search for a business computer. Hartree invited Lyons representatives to come to Cambridge to meet him. Hartree was so central to the success of LEO that on his death in 1954, the headquarters of LEO computers was renamed Hartree House.
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