Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of E-mail passed away

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, the inventor of E-mail and the man who picked @symbol for addresses, passed away in Washington on 6 March 2016. 
•    He was 74.
•    He was an American computer scientist who became a cult figure for his invention in 1971 of a program for APRANET
•    APRANET, was the internet predecessor that allowed people to send person to person messages to other computer users on other servers.
•    He was working at Bolt Beranek and Newman – now Raytheon BBN Technologies – when he made his email breakthrough
•    In 2000, he received the George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award from the American Computer Museum. 
•    He also received Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science. 
•    He also won Innovation award from Discover magazine, and the Eduard-Rhein Cultural Award.
•    In 2012, Tomlinson was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.
•    He was born on 23 April 1941 in Amsterdam in New York, Unites States (US).