August Dvorak

August Dvorak ( May 5, 1894 *, † October 10, 1975 ) was an American psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

He and his brother in law William Dealey have become known by the development of the Dvorak keyboard designs in the 1930s. The Dvorak keyboard is designed as a replacement for the ( English ) QWERTY keyboard, which is based on purely technical requirements. Dvorak keyboard layout based on the other hand, the principle that the most commonly used ( in English ) letters must also be easiest to reach. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed a keyboard that can be operated with one hand.

Dvorak wrote along with Dealey, Nellie Merrick and Gertrude Ford the book Typewriting Behavior, which was published in 1936. The book is an in-depth report on the psychology and physiology of typing.

Dvorak was a distant relative of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. The debate, however, was anglicised and accounted for the diacritics. The composer's name is because of the Hatschek on the "r" correctly [ dvɔr̝a ː k] pronounced. August Dvorak's surname is pronounced in the United States [ dvɔɹæk ].