Gerhard Friedrich Hund (born February 4, 1932 in
Leipzig
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) is a German
chess
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player,
mathematician
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and
computer scientist
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.
Biography
He is the oldest son of physicist
Friedrich Hund
Friedrich Hermann Hund (4 February 1896 – 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.
Scientific career
Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Göt ...
(1896–1997). He studied at the
Friedrich Schiller University
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in Jena (1950–1951) and at the
Goethe University Frankfurt
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(1951–1955). In 1955 he met his wife
Juliane Hund (née Meyer). They had four daughters Susanne van Kempen (b.1958),
Barbara Hund (b.1959),
Isabel Hund (b.1962) and Dorothee Lampe (b.1966). After graduation, he was collaborator of
Alwin Walther
Alwin Oswald Walther (born 6 May 1898 in Reick; died 4 January 1967 in Darmstadt) was a German mathematician, engineer and professor. He is one of the pioneers of mechanical computing technology in Germany.
Life
Alwin Walther was born in May 1 ...
at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
From 1961 to 1995 he was Chief Executive of
Bayer
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in
Leverkusen
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.
[H. Schappert:'' For DV Development at Bayer''. Bayer AG, Leverkusen, AV computer science, 1985.]
Bibliography
*'' Standards for assessing the performance of electronic computing machine'' In.'' Economic management. Releases for personal information'' Vol 4, June, 1958 ., pp. 3–7 and August 3–10 p.
*'' Structure recognition and machine learning.'' Electronic computing systems, Issue 3, September 1959, pp. 111 Journal of Technology and application of message processing in science, business and management. R. Oldenbourg in Munich and Vienna, 1959.
* With H. Schappert:'' Programming for the IBM 650, lecture and practical 1959'' Institute of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Darmstadt, summer semester, 1959..
* Book reviews''.'' E.g. In: VDI'' magazine'' Vol 101, No. 27, 1959, , p 1297th.
* With Wolfgang Möhlen: ''Report on the British computer systems'' In:'' leaves the German Society for Insurance Mathematics'' Vol 4, H. No. 4, April 1960 , pp. 454–461.
* With
Günther Kern, Egon Rissmann: ''Gynecological cancer early diagnosis using cytology'' In:' Archives of Gynecology Vol 199, No. 5, 1964, , pp. 502–525, DOI .
* With Günther Kern, Egon Rissmann: ''The performance of colposcopy early diagnosis of Collumcarcinoms'' In:' Archives of Gynecology Vol 199, No. 5, 1964, pp. 526–539, .
* With H. Fink: ''Probit analysis using program-controlled computer systems'' In ''
drug research
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'' Vol 15, 1965, , pp. 624–630.
* With H. Fink and D. Meysing: ''Comparison of biological effects by programmed probit'' In ''Methods of information in medicine'' Vol 5, No. 1, , pp. 19–25.
* ''FORTRAN Dictionary''. In ''Leaves the German Society for Insurance Mathematics'' Vol 8, No. 3, October 1967, pp. 499–520.
* With W. Barthel and M. Wolf-Litt: ''Data processing businessman''. Sheets for Professional Studies, Volume 1, Published by the Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg, in cooperation with the German trade union federation, Düsseldorf. 1–IX A 303 Bertelsmann Verlag Bielefeld 1 Edition, 1973, No. 12.90.252.164 E, 15 pages.
* With Th Dimmling:'' Comparison of two ampicillin preparations juice'' In:'' Medicine'' Vol 69, April 1974 , pp. 642–645, PMID. 4,837,276th
See also
*
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
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*
Chess of the Grandmasters
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History
Between 1983 and 2005, the programme was broadcast once a year by ...
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German Chess Federation
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1932 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German chess players
20th-century German mathematicians
Scientists from Leipzig
University of Jena alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt faculty