Peter T. Kirstein

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Peter Thomas Kirstein , CBE (born June 20, 1933 in Berlin as Peter Thomas Kirschstein ; † January 8, 2020 in London ) was a British computer scientist and internet pioneer.

Peter Thomas Kirstein was the son of the Jewish Berlin dentists Walter Kirschstein and Eleanor geb. Jacobsohn, who fled to England in 1937. Kirstein studied at the universities of Cambridge (BA in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering; 1954) and Stanford (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering; 1955); he received his PhD in electrical engineering (PhD 1957) and engineering (DSc 1970) from the University of London . From 1959 to 1963 he worked at CERN , the major research facility at Meyrin in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland. From 1963 to 1967 he did research for General Electric in Zurich. From 1970 to 1973 he was Professor at the University of London and from 1980 to 1994 Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at University College London .

He was the head of the project that connected Great Britain to the ARPANET in 1973 .

Kirstein developed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) standards , which different computer networks can use to share information. He thus laid important foundations for the dissemination of the protocols on which today's Internet functions. In 2012 he became part of the Internet Hall of Fame . Furthermore, Kirstein u. a. inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the British Computer Society , the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Engineering .

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  1. ↑ a b c Katie Hafner: "Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead at 86" , The New York Times , January 8, 2020 (English)
  2. ↑ The man who networked the queen: on the death of Peter Kirstein , heise.de, article from January 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter K. (PDF; 670 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lawrence M. Fisher: In Memoriam Peter T. Kirstein: 1933-2020. In: Communications of the ACM. January 8, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Peter T. Kirstein. National Academy of Engineering, accessed January 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirstein, Peter T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirstein, Peter Thomas (full name); Kirschstein, Peter Thomas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist and internet pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2020
Place of death London