Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 - October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist who received his BSc in 1937 and PhD in physics in 1941 at the University of Chicago. He arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory in April 1943, returned in 1948 to lead the Theoretical Division group that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952, modeled on the IAS machine, and the MANIAC II in 1957.
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What did Nicholas Metropolis build at Los Alamos?
He developed and implemented the MANIAC computer system at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
The IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneers biography describes Nicholas Metropolis as the developer and implementer of the MANIAC system at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He came to computing as a physicist, not a computer scientist: he earned his bachelor's degree in 1937 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago.
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Nicholas Metropolis led the 1953 paper introducing the Monte Carlo method later generalized by W. K. Hastings into the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.
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1. Wikidata: Nicholas Metropolis
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June 11, 1915
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June 11, 1915
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October 17, 1999
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October 17, 1999
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was a Greek-American physicist.
View the SourceIEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Nicholas (Nick) Metropolis
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developer and implementer of the MANIAC system
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Von Neumann, Nicholas Metropolis and others programmed the ENIAC computer to perform the first fully automated Monte Carlo calculations
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The MANIAC I (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model I) is an early computer that was built under the direction of Nicholas Metropolis at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and was completed in 1952.
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