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Nationality
  
Scottish

Name
  
James Goodfellow

Role
  
Inventor



Born
  
1937
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Known for
  
Inventing the ATM and the PIN

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James Goodfellow OBE (born 1937 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish inventor. In 1966, he patented Personal Identification Number (PIN) technology, and the Automatic Cash Dispenser.

He was a development engineer given the project of developing an automatic cash dispenser in 1965. His system accepted a machine readable encrypted card, with a numerical PIN keypad.

In 2006 Goodfellow was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his invention of the Personal Identification Number.

References

James Goodfellow Wikipedia