John von Neumann

• 1903, born
• 1926, splitting 50-50 between Berlin and Princeton
• 1932, First book, Mathematische grundlagen der quantenmechanik
• 1935, Charakterisierung des spektrums eines integraloperators
• 1936, Continuous Geometry
• 1937, Wiener visits
• 1943, begins working at Manhattan Project
• 1944, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, with Oskar Morgenstern
• 1944, works on computers with Goldstine
• 1950, Ulam suggests cellular automata
• 1957, died
• 1958, The Computer and the Brain
• 1966, Theory of Self-reproducing Automata. Edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks