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Served in Army
Shortly after receiving citizenship into the US, Kemeny served in the Army as an assistant in the theoretical division of the Los Alamos nuclear project -
Undergraduate Teacher
John Kemeny, who had once already attended the university, returned to Princeton after working with the Army and began working as a teaching assistant and an instructor in mathematics. Kemeny, who had just recently gotten his US citizenship, was still an undergraduate student at the time. -
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Albert Einstein's assistant
Johnn Kemeny was appointed as Albert Einstein's mathematical assistant while a doctoral student. While many believed he was selected to help Einstein with physics, he assured everyone that he was doing just fine in that area. -
Hired as Full Professor
Even though John Kemeny already had assistant and part time experience with teaching, he was made a full professor of mathematics after officially graduating with his bachelor's degree. He was aged 27. -
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Chairman
John Kemeny served as longtime Chairman of Dartmouth's Department of Mathematics. While he made his way around many top rated universities, Kemeny held many long positions while at Dartmouth College. -
Original BASIC
John Kemeny and John Kurtz invented the original version of BASIC for use at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. It was originally aimed at those who had little to no experience with programming or computing. -
President of Dartmouth
John Kemeny spent much of his time at Dartmouth College. He worked his way up from a student, to teaching assistant, part time to full time instructor, chairman and then was officially inaugurated as the thirteenth president at the tender age of 43. -
Admission of Women
John Kemeny looked to making differences outside of the mathematics. He was involved with guiding the institution through a series of profound changes, like the one of allowing the admission of women. -
More stable BASIC
Though the program that Kemeny and Kurtz had developed was a major break through, it lacked certain stability. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) began developing a voluntary standard for BASIC to bring more stability. -
"Minimal" BASIC
There were many developments and upgrades suggested to the program. In 1978, a more "minimal" BASIC standard appeared. -
Selected to Chair Commission
John Kemeny was selected by President Jimmy Carter to chair the Presidential Commission to investigate the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, which occurrred earlier that year. -
Kemeny reveals Commission Report
Kemeny concluded "the plants are safe; it's the people who aren't safe" as his summary from a 179 page report by the Commission and called for fundamental changes in the way nuclear reactors were constructed and managed. -
Resignation of Presidency
John Kemeny resigned as President of Dartmouth College and returned to full time teaching in 1981. -
Conference at William's College
Kemeny spoke at a conference at William's College in reference to the relation between Calculus and discrete mathematics. -
TrueBASIC
An IBM PC version of TrueBASIC was released.
