Peter T. Kirstein

Peter Kirstein
Born
Peter Thomas Kirschstein

(1933-06-20)20 June 1933
Berlin, Germany
Died8 January 2020(2020-01-08) (aged 86)
London, England
EducationHighgate School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsCERN
General Electric
University College London
ThesisCurvilinear space-charge flow with applications to electron guns (1957)
Doctoral advisorGordon S. Kino
Marvin Chodorow[1]
Doctoral studentsJon Crowcroft[2][1]
Websitewww.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Kirstein/ Edit this at Wikidata

Peter Thomas Kirstein ( 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]

  1. ^ a b Peter T. Kirstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Crowcroft, Jonathan Andrew (1993). Lightweight protocols for distributed systems. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 940339238. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.812029. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Peter Kirstein to receive Marconi Prize". Marconi Society. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. ^ UCL (22 August 2019). "Father of the European internet". Made at UCL. Retrieved 21 January 2024.