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John von Nuemann comes to mind, Edison of course...

seems history is written by the patent submitters



And Charles Darwin (about 600 years late): https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/resources/timeline...


> John von Nuemann

Are you saying that some of the work attributed to Neumann was not his? Are there any examples?


The famed "von Neumann" architecture refers to a write-up he was asked to do to update the Army on progress on the ENIAC. He didn't even intend to publish it, the ENIAC was classified, it was Goldstine that published it with their names on it. See the "controversies" section here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_t...

The book "Pioneer Programmer" by ENIAC programmer Jean Jennings Bartik goes into detail about the egos at play in taking credit for the work done by Eckert & Mauchly.




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