Victor Alexander Vyssotsky (russian: Виктор Александрович Высотский; February 26, 1931 - December 24, 2012 in

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Alexander N. Vyssotsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Высо́тский, 23 May 1888 – 31 December 1973) was a Russian- American astronomer. Born in Moscow, in 1923 he moved to the United States, where he event ...

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( American) was a

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to develop

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, he devised and played a computer game called Darwin (later known as

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. Later virus developers used the same technique to develop some viruses. He is interred at National Cemetery

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