William Papian
MIT engineer on Jay Forrester's Whirlwind project who, per An Wang's own 1970 oral-history testimony, personally visited Wang at Harvard to learn the magnetic-core read/write technique shortly after Wang's own report on core memory.
Matters to this vault as the direct, named technical conduit between An Wang's storage-element invention and Jay Forrester's matrix-organization scheme — the specific person, rather than an institution or a later retelling, that the priority-and-credit dispute in the vault's attribution-and-origin-myths cluster runs through.
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