Nathan Myhrvold

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Nathan Myhrvold (2007)

Nathan Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959 in Seattle ) is a former Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures .

Life

Myhrvold is a son of the teacher Nathalie Myhrvold and grew up with his brother Cameron in modest circumstances and without a father. He was still able to attend private schools in Los Angeles and received a scholarship to the Mirman School, an institution for the gifted. He received his diploma in mathematics at 19 and graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in mathematical and theoretical physics at 23 . He then spent a year at Cambridge as a post-doctoral student with Stephen Hawking . In Oakland , California , he founded his own software company, Dynamical Systems , which was bought by Microsoft in 1986. He stayed with Microsoft until 1999, and in 1991 Myhrvold founded its research subsidiary Microsoft Research in Redmond .

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Myhrvold's research and projects have been published in various specialist journals and magazines ( Harvard Business Review , The Wall Street Journal , Fortune , Time and National Geographic Traveler ). In 2010, the US foreign policy journal Foreign Policy included him in its list of the world's 100 most important thought leaders. The American Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the United States in 2011.

Myhrvold is a hobby cook, author and photographer. He gained culinary experience as Thierry Rautureau 's apprentice at Rover’s , one of Seattle’s leading restaurants . He also attended the École de Cuisine la Varenne cooking school in France. In 2011, Myhrvold published the six-volume cookbook Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking together with Chris Young and Maxime Bilet . Because of its scientific approach, the compendium sees itself as a redefinition of the modern way of cooking and contains elements of experimental cuisine - Myhrvold distances himself in the book from the misleading term “molecular cuisine”. Examples are the use of a homogenizer , a centrifuge and vacuum cooking . Although Myhrvold claims that his work can also be put into practice by hobby chefs without a laboratory , he estimates around 30 hours to prepare the “perfect cheeseburger”.

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Web links

Commons : Nathan Myhrvold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Interviews
  • Taschen Verlag website : Modernist Cuisine. The culinary revolution frequently asked questions:
    • Part 1 . Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved on August 10, 2013: "Can a hobby chef really cook your recipes?"
    • Part 2 . Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved on August 10, 2013: “The work has 2438 pages. Is there any aspect of cooking that is not covered? "
    • Part 3 . Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2013: "Is cooking an art or a science?"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Renton: Nathan the Wise. The magazine N ° 49, Tamedia, Zurich December 5, 2015, pages 10–22
  2. ↑ Microsoft press release: Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold Takes Leave of Absence , June 1, 1999
  3. ^ Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers. (No longer available online.) Foreign Policy , November 29, 2010, archived from the original March 8, 2011 ; Retrieved March 23, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foreignpolicy.com
  4. ↑ The 2011 TIME 100 Poll (English), Time . Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  5. ^ Science Kitchen , Der Tagesspiegel . Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Peter Prantner: 30-hour burger from the kitchen laboratory. ORF.at, November 26, 2012, accessed on June 2, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Myhrvold, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle