SWAC was an early electronic digital computer built in 1950 by the United States National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles, California, and designed by Harry Huskey.
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SignificanceResearchers used SWAC to discover five new Mersenne primes in 1952, and its computations supported the X-ray analysis of vitamin B12 structure that contributed to Dorothy Hodgkin's 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: SWAC (computer)
Wikimedia FoundationOverview section, sentence on the August 1950 completion date
When the SWAC was completed in August 1950, it was the fastest computer in the world.
Overview section, paragraph on the vitamin B12 X-ray work and 1964 Nobel Prize
the SWAC was vital in doing the intense calculation required for the X-ray analysis of the structure of vitamin B12 done by Dorothy Hodgkin. This was fundamental in Hodgkin receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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