Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex which later inspired the creation of hypertext and the World Wide Web.

Bush was born on March 11, 1890, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He had two sisters. His father was a Universalist minister. Bush received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Tufts College in 1913. In 1963, he received the National Medal Of Science.Bush died in Belmont, Massachusetts, at the age of 84 from pneumonia on June 28, 1974.