yes
He invented the first electro digital computer
During the winter of 1937-1938. The machine was completed in early 1942.
Ames Iowa, although he got the ideas driving his car somewhere in Indiana.
Not as far as I know. Charles Babbage, John Vincent Atanasoff and Alan Turing. Those people are commonly regarded as the forefathers of the modern computer.
no
John Backus was a US mathematician, born in 1924. He didn't invent the computer, but he did develop FORTRAN, a computer language. For that and for other achievements in computer programming, he received the Turing Award in 1977.
John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Ansoff, from Bulgaria, invented the first computer.
Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff
Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff.
Because he made it