Carl Adam Petri
| Carl Adam Petri | |
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| Born | 12 July 1926 Leipzig, Weimar Republic |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Siegburg |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Bonn |
| Alma mater | Darmstadt University of Technology |
| Known for | Petri nets |
| Notable awards | Cross of Merit, First class (1988) Konrad Zuse Medal (1993) Werner von Siemens Ring (1996) IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2008)[1] |
Carl Adam Petri (12 July 1926 – 2 July 2010) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Leipzig.[2]
Life and work
Petri's major scientific contribution, the concept of the Petri net, was invented in August 1939 by Carl Petri – at the age of 13 – for the purpose of describing chemical processes.[3][citation needed] In 1941 his father told him about Konrad Zuse's work on computing machines and Carl Adam started building his own analog computer.
After earning his Abitur at the Thomasschule he was in 1944 drafted into the Wehrmacht and eventually went into British captivity.
Petri started studying mathematics at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1950. He documented the Petri net in 1962 as part of his dissertation, Kommunikation mit Automaten (communication with automata). He worked from 1959 until 1962 at the University of Bonn and received his PhD degree in 1962 from the Darmstadt University of Technology.
Petri's work significantly advanced the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing, and it helped define the modern studies of complex systems and workflow management systems. His contributions have been in the broader area of network theory which includes coordination models and theories of interaction, and eventually led to the formal study of software connectors.
In 1988 he became honorary professor of the University of Hamburg.[4] Petri officially retired in 1991. He was a member of the Academia Europaea.
Awards
Petri was honored with the following awards:
- 1993: Konrad Zuse Medal of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.[5]
- 1996: Werner von Siemens Ring, a prestigious German award in technical sciences.[citation needed]
- 2003: honored by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands with the title Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
- 2007: honored for his lifetime achievements by the "Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (ATLAS)" with a "Academy Gold Medal of Honor".[citation needed]
- 2008: Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ↑ http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news305378
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Carl Adam Petri and Wolfgang Reisig (2008) Petri net. Scholarpedia, 3(4):6477
- ↑ Petri's page at the University of Hamburg
- ↑ Konrad-Zuse-Medaille, Gesellschaft für Informatik (in German), retrieved 2012-03-09.
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