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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.
4 Jan 2017 · Heinz Billing was a German computer pioneer and a gravitational-wave research pioneer who died in 2017 at the age of 102. He contributed to the development of key technologies for laser interferometers and witnessed the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015.
Heinz Billing was a German physicist who built the first working electronic computer in Germany and invented the magnetic drum storage device. He also worked on aeronautical acoustics, brain currents, and gravity waves.
10 Jan 2017 · Heinz Billing (1914-2017) was a pioneer in electronic computing machines and gravitational wave astronomy. He developed the G1, G2 and G3 calculation engines and founded the first gravitational wave detectors in Germany.
Heinz Billing war ein deutscher Physiker und Pionier im Bau von Computeranlagen und Datenspeichern sowie bei der Erforschung von Gravitationswellen.
9 Okt 2017 · The founder of Germany’s side of LIGO, Heinz Billing, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics near Munich, first heard of Weiss’s pioneering interferometer designs in 1975, when...
Heinz Billing (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist. He is thought to be a pioneer in the construction of computer systems, computer data storage and built prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. [1] He was award the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1987.
