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John Von Neumann died in 1956 and I believe he came up with the original "von neumann probe" that he called the "universal constructor"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor