The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Weaver, an American mathematician and one of the founders of communication theory, directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Natural Science Division from 1932 to 1955, and in this capacity exercised considerable influence over the direction of basic research in the United States and abroad during the 1930s and 1940s. He is considered the first person to propose using electronic computers for the translation of natural languages.
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