Robert Oppenheimer created Pac-Man ... But I only just found out the guy who made it, one William Higinbotham, also co-created the first ever nuclear bomb. Higinbotham, a man who must have ...

Oppenheimer’s failure to persuade Truman led scientists to make a dramatic decision: a direct appeal to the public. To reach a mass audience, William Higinbotham, chairman of the newly formed ...

Born on October 25, 1910, American physicist William Higinbotham's innovative spirit led him to create Tennis for Two in 1958. Working at Brookhaven National Laboratory with a focus on nuclear ...

A 1959 exhibition of the first video game "Tennis For Two," designed physicist William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958. Flickr Creative Commons/ Brookhaven National ...

Physicist William Higinbotham invented the first video game, Tennis for Two, at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York in 1958, though he has rarely been recognized for his ...

Physicist William Higinbotham helped to develop the atomic bomb before becoming a vocal advocate for nuclear weapon control. He also invented the first video game Tennis for Two. Written by Nick Smith ...