| LC control no. | n 2022061883 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lawson, Jerry, 1940-2011 |
| Variant(s) | Lawson, Gerald Anderson, 1940-2011 |
| Other standard no. | 2424166959205847160005 Q3249197 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1940-12-01 |
| Death date | 2011-04-09 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Santa Clara (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Video games industry Video game console Video game cartridge |
| Affiliation | Fairchild (Firm) Homebrew Computer Club |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers |
| Found in | Jerry changed the game!, 2023: title page (Jerry Lawson) Wikipedia, November 17, 2022 (entry under: Jerry Lawson (engineer); Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940-April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the videogame cartridge" according to Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. He left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft.) New York Times online, 21 Feb. 2023: in an obituary published 13 Apr. 2011 (Gerald A. Lawson; born Gerald Anderson Lawson on Dec. 1, 1940 in Brooklyn [New York], died Saturday [Apr. 9, 2011] in Santa Clara, Calif., aged 70; a largely self-taught engineer who became a pioneer in electronic video entertainment, creating the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges; along with other Silicon Valley innovators, Lawson belonged to a hobbyists' group known as the Homebrew Computer Club -- two of its other members were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, later the founders of Apple) |
| Not found in | ISNI, 21 Feb. 2023 |
| Associated language | eng |
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