Arpad Elo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arpad Elo

Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1903

Place of Birth: Pápa, Veszprém County, Hungary

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1992

Profession: physicist, inventor, university teacher, statistician, academic, chess player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Arpad Emmerich Elo (born Élo Árpád Imre; August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was the creator of the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Born in Egyházaskeszo, Austro-Hungarian Empire, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. Elo was a professor of physics at Marquette University in Milwaukee and a chess master.
By the 1930s he was the strongest chess player in Milwaukee, then one of the nation's leading chess cities.
He won the Wisconsin State Championship eight times.Elo died in Brookfield, Wisconsin.