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Alexander N. Vyssotsky (born May 23, 1888 in Moscow, Russia; died December 31, 1973 in Winter Park, Florida) was an astronomer.
In his 35 years of astronomical work at the University of Virginia he published countless works,
with his best known probably being a catalog with five lists of stars entitled Dwarf M Stars Found Spectrophotometrically .
In 1929, he married fellow astronomer Emma T. R. Williams, who was from Philadelphia. They had one son Victor A. Vyssotsky (a mathematician and computer scientist) who was involved in MulticsMultics Mult iplexed I nformation and C omputing S ervice) was an extraordinarily influential early time-sharing operating system. Overview Initial planning and development for Multics started in 1964. Originally it was a cooperative project led by MIT (w project and creator of DarwinDarwin (a. a Core War) is a computer game devised and played by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr. and Doug McIlroy in early 1960s on a IBM 7090 at Bell Labs. Later developers used techniques learned from the game to write viruses. External links . computer game.