William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (died 1994)

William Higinbotham

American physicist (1910–1994)

William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first…