August Dvorak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Dvorak

American scientist

Date of Birth: 05-May-1894

Place of Birth: Everett, Washington, United States

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1975

Profession: computer scientist, professor, inventor, psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975) was an American educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout.
In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.Dvorak and Dealey, along with Nellie Merrick and Gertrude Ford, wrote the book Typewriting Behavior, published in 1936.
The book is an in-depth report on the psychology and physiology of typing. Dvorak served with the American Army Field Artillery during the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa and was wounded during the campaign.
Afterward he was discharged and enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve, teaching mathematics and navigation until World War I, where he served aboard the captured German privateer USS Callao bringing troops home until his discharge in 1919.
Later, he was the captain of a Gato-class submarine in the United States Navy during World War II.
He was distantly related to the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák.
While the composer's name is pronounced ['dvor???k]), with the r roughly as a simultaneous trilled [r] and [?], August Dvorak's family in the U.S.
pronounces it , with an English r.