Hannes Keller (entrepreneur)
Hannes Keller (born September 20, 1934 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss computer pioneer , entrepreneur, diving pioneer and amateur pianist.
Life
He was born the son of an architect and grew up sheltered in Winterthur. Early on he showed great curiosity and wanted to create something new. He made up his Matura so that he could study philosophy , mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Zurich . However, he dropped out of college and turned to diving research. With the support of Albert Bühlmann , he worked on diving tables for special breathing gas mixtures that consisted of 95% helium and 5% oxygen . In 1961, thanks to the diving tables he had prepared, he succeeded in diving with his partner McLeish in Lake Maggiore to a depth of 230 m. In the following year he reached in a spectacular and at the same time tragic dive with a diving bell off California ( Santa Catalina Island ) over 300 m diving depth. Two other divers, Peter Small and Chris Whittacker, died. The depth reached was not exceeded until 1975.
As a successful entrepreneur, Hannes Keller was a leading dealer for IBM PCs in Switzerland in the 1970s and 1980s . He developed Witchpen , Ways for Windows and Wizardmaker, early and successful applications in the field of automatic spelling correction, automatic translation and macro recording. Keller is currently a member of the board of visipix.com AG.
Hannes Keller is considered a good classical pianist, he published several recordings and gave concerts in front of over 2000 listeners. Furthermore, he was the organizer of the concert or experiment The Great Tartarov , with pianist Jean-Jacques Hauser improvising as a fictional Russian pianist, while the audience believed that they were original works by important composers.
Keller has his residence in Niederglatt .
In 1999, Hannes Keller started the website www.visipix.com, the “world's largest art and photo museum”. 1.25 million images are online. Anyone can download high-resolution images and use them for free both privately and commercially. The philosophy is similar to Wikipedia. Original sound from Hannes Keller: "I don't want to live in a world in which everything costs money and is provided with the least amount of effort and risk."
literature
Thomas Renggli: Deep Intoxication. Biography of Hannes Keller. Verlag Fona, 2019, 192 pp.
Web links
- http://www.hist-divers.ch/pionier.html
- Hannes Keller in an interview at ComputerClub 2 Article and podcast of the Easter special from ComputerClub 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Bühler: Hannes Keller was the first person to dive 300 meters deep. NZZ April 23, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss computer pioneer, entrepreneur, diving pioneer and amateur pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |