You probably mean Karlheinz Brandenburg, the developer of MP3, who worked on psychoacoustics. Not completely off though, as he did the research at a Fraunhofer research institute, which takes its name from Joseph von Fraunhofer, the inventor of the spectroscope.
The article calls him “Lampel“, not “Lempel” as in Lempel-Ziv compression. That’s a bit strange but maybe just a pronunciation variant in Hebrew?
What’s more concerning is that the article doesn’t seem to understand the difference between lossless compression (which Lempel significantly contributed to) and lossy compression using psychoacoustic models as used in MP3 (and invented by Fraunhofer in Erlangen, Germany)…
Regarding your first question, yes. Source: I have been a student at University of Bremen and attended some of his lectures (I remember at least one titled "Physikalisch-technische Grundlagen Digitaler Medien").
Yes, the same Hans Peter Luhn (German-born U.S.-American researcher mostly with IBM R&D - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn). He also single-handedly invented automatic document summarization and knowledge management.
> A lot of people can also be traced back to Wirth.
Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala and javac, was born in Germany but received his PhD in Zurich, at EHTZ, under Wirth's supervision[1]. Odersky is now a professor in Lausanne at EPFL [2].
I was always under the impression that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (who is Dutch, not German) invented the microscope. I can't find anything about a German Count who funded microsope research anywhere. Does anybody know a source for this?
After publishing his monograph on the galvanic circuit, he did resign from his position at Bamburg: after which he took up positions at Nuremberg and finally Munich, as a professor of experimental physics.
It's easy to confidently think to ourselves, of course we would have accepted Ohm's law! But would we have rejected Ohm's acoustic law as well? What oracle gives us this amazing power?
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