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Heinz Billing was born on 7 April, 1914 in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is a German physicists (1914–2017). Discover Heinz Billing's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 103 years old?

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Age 103 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 7 April, 1914
Birthday 7 April
Birthplace Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Date of death 2017
Died Place Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1701

Advanced LIGO detected the fourth gravitational wave event GW170104 on the same day.

Billing worked at the Aerodynamic Research Institute in Göttingen, where he developed a magnetic drum memory.

1914

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.

Billing was born in Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

1938

After studying mathematics and physics in University of Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1938 in Munich at the age of 24.

During the Second World War he worked in the Aerodynamics Research Institute in Göttingen.

1943

On 3 October 1943 he married Anneliese Oetker.

1944

Billing has three children: Heiner Erhard Billing (born 18 November 1944 in Salzwedel), Dorit Gerda Gronefeld Billing (born 27 June 1946 in Göttingen) and Arend Gerd Billing (born 19 September 1954 in Göttingen).

1947

It took place in Göttingen in 1947.

The interrogation had the form of a colloquium.

Participants were Womersley, Turing, Porter from England and a few German researchers like Zuse, Walther, and Billing.

(For more details see Herbert Bruderer, Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz).

1951

After a brief stay at the University of Sydney, Billing returned to join the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1951.

1952

From 1952 through 1961 the group under Billing's direction constructed a series of four digital computers: the G1, G2, G1a, and G3.

He is the designer of the first German sequence-controlled electronic digital computer as well as of the first German stored-program electronic digital computer.

After transistors had been firmly established, when microelectronics arrived, after scientific computers were slowly overshadowed by commercial applications and computers were mass-produced in factories, Heinz Billing left the computer field in which he had been a pioneer for nearly 30 years.

1972

In 1972, Billing returned to his original field of physics, at the Max Planck Institute's new location at Garching near Munich.

Beginning in 1972, Heinz Billing became involved in gravitational physics, when he tried to verify the detection claims made by American physicist Joseph Weber.

Weber's results were considered to be proven wrong by these experiments.

1975

In 1975, Billing acted on a proposal by Rainer Weiss from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) to use laser interferometry to detect gravitational waves.

He and colleagues built a 3m prototype Michelson interferometer using optical delay lines.

1980

From 1980 onward Billing commissioned the development and construction in MPA in Garching of a laser interferometer with an arm length of 30m.

Without the knowledge gained from this prototype, the LIGO project would not have been started when it did.

1987

In 1987, Heinz Billing received the Konrad Zuse Medal for the invention of magnetic drum storage.

1993

In 1993, the annual Heinz Billing prize for "outstanding contributions to computational science" was established by the Max Planck Society in his honor, with a prize amount of 5,000 Euro.

1997

According to Billing's memoirs, published by Genscher, Düsseldorf (1997), there was a meeting between Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse.

2015

In 2015 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

2017

He turned 100 in April 2014 and died on 4 January 2017 at the age of 102.