Heinz Billing

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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]