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Heinz Billing | |
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![]() Heinz Billing in 2012 | |
Born | 7 April 1914 |
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]