Heinz Zemanek [SEP] place of death
Heinz Zemanek
Heinz Zemanek (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — German for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.
Life.
Heinz Zemanek went to a secondary school in Vienna and earned his Matura in 1937. He then started to study at the University of Vienna
Zemanek
Zemanek is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bohumil Zemánek (1942–1996), sculptor
- Heinz Zemanek (1920–2014), computer pioneer
- John Zemanek, architect
- Stan Zemanek (1947–2007), radio broadcaster
- Debrah Zemanek (1994-present), notable laureate, legend