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Heinz Billing
Heinz Billing in 2012
Born
7 April 1914
Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died
4 January 2017 (aged 102)
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Citizenship
Germany
Alma mater
University of Göttingen
Known for
Prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector Data storage device
Awards
Konrad Zuse Medal (1987)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics Computer science Experimental Gravitation
Institutions
Aerodynamic Test Centre at Göttingen[1] Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Max Planck Institute for Physics
Doctoral advisor
Walter Gerlach Eduard Rüchardt
Heinz Billing (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector.[1]
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numerical relativity. In 1998 Seidel was awarded the Max Planck Society's Heinz-Billing-Preis award, for the "achievements of those who have spent time and...
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directors of the institute include: Siegfried Bethke Ludwig Biermann HeinzBilling Gerd Buschhorn Peter Debye Hans-Peter Dürr Albert Einstein Gerhard von...
Acrisure Stadium, formerly (and still colloquially) known as Heinz Field, is a football stadium located in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh...
of German Construction). Source: Gesellschaft für Informatik 1987: HeinzBilling 1989: Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann 1989: Robert Piloty 1991: Wilhelm Kämmerer [de]...
professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Alwin Walther, HeinzBilling, Helmut Schreyer, Konrad Zuse and Alan Turing met in Göttingen in 1947...
transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his...
electrovacuum), Jiří Bičák (exact solutions of Einstein field equations), HeinzBilling (prototype of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector), George...
Heinz Werner Alfred Kaufmann (20 September 1913 – 31 August 1997) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the bronze...
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