Lev Israilewitsch Gutenmacher

Lev Israilewitsch Gutenmacher ( Russian Лев Изра́илевич Гутенма́хер ; * 1908 in Tarutino , Russian Empire ; † 1981 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet mathematician , computer scientist , pioneer of computer technology and university teacher .

Life

Gutenmacher studied at the Don Polytechnic Institute in Novocherkassk , graduating in 1931, in order to then work on his candidate dissertation , which he successfully defended in 1934. He then worked there as a lecturer.

In 1938 he moved to the Energy Technology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow and in 1939 founded the Laboratory for Electrical Modeling (LEM) , of which he was then head. To this end, he taught at the Moscow Physics Engineering Institute and the Moscow Nuclear Technology University (from 1943 as a professor). During the German-Soviet War , an alternating current device for automatic flak fire was developed under Gutenmacher's direction . After the war, the first programmable electronic analog computers were built between 1945 and 1946 .

In 1948 the laboratory was transferred to the Institute for Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology of the Academy of Sciences. In 1950 Gutenmacher became head of the project to develop a tube-free electronic computer with a ferrite core memory . The first LEM-1 computer worked in 1954.

In 1957 Gutenmacher's laboratory moved to the All Union Institute for Computer Science and in 1962 to the All Union Institute for Natural Gas Research of the Academy of Sciences. The laboratory consisted of eight departments covering mathematical logic , electrical analog modeling, mathematical linguistics , mathematical methods in chemistry, and others.

Goodmaker was not an easy person. Difficulties at work eventually led to his discharge from the laboratory. In the last years of his life, Gutenmacher headed the chair for computer technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Odessa.

Honors

• Stalin Prize
• State Prize of the USSR

Web links

• Literature by and about Lev Israilewitsch Gutenmacher in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lev Israilevich Gutenmaher ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 4, 2016). 
2. ↑ The beginning of the scientific researches (accessed May 4, 2016).
3. ↑ Alexander Nitusov: Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (accessed May 4, 2016).
4. ^ Aron Katsenelinboigen: Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR: Pergamon Policy Studies on The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . Elsevier 2016, p. 66.