August Dvorak

Dr. August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975) was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand. Quotes I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change! 1962 interview, reported in Robert Parkinson, "The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration", Computers And Automation, 1972-11, pp. 18-25 repeated in Discovery Magazine, 1997 External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Psychologists from the United States Category:1975 deaths Category:People from Minnesota Category:1894 births