Peter Kirstein | |
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| Born | Peter Thomas Kirschstein 20 June 1933 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 8 January 2020 (aged 86) London, England |
| Education | Highgate School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | CERN General Electric University College London |
| Thesis | Curvilinear space-charge flow with applications to electron guns (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gordon S. Kino Marvin Chodorow[1] |
| Doctoral students | Jon Crowcroft[2][1] |
| Website | www |
Peter Thomas Kirstein (né Kirschstein; 20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He made the first internetworking connection on the ARPANET in 1973, by providing a link to British academic networks, and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
Kirstein is often recognized as the "father of the European Internet".[3][4]
- ^ a b Peter T. Kirstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Crowcroft, Jonathan Andrew (1993). Lightweight protocols for distributed systems. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 940339238. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.812029.
- ^ "Peter Kirstein to receive Marconi Prize". Marconi Society. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^ UCL (22 August 2019). "Father of the European internet". Made at UCL. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
