About Leonard Issacson
Lived 1925 – 2018 (aged 92–93). Leonard Issacson was an American composer, chemist and musician.
Leonard Maxwell Isaacson (December 15, 1925 – July 1, 2018) was an American chemist and composer.
Isaacson was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 15, 1925. He collaborated with Lejaren Hiller on the computer-programmed acoustic composition, Illiac Suite (1957). At the time, both composers were professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and used the university's room-size ILLIAC I. He died in Belvedere Tiburon, California on July 1, 2018, at the age of 92.
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Who was Leonard Issacson?
American composer and chemist
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Leonard Issacson was born in 1925.
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Leonard Issacson died in 2018.
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Leonard Issacson was a composer, chemist and musician.
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Leonard Issacson was American.
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