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The basics
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German mathematician, computer scientist and chess player
Gender:
Male
Work field:
Birth:
4 February 1932(Leipzig)
Family:
Mother:
Ingeborg Seynsche
Father:
Friedrich Hund
Spouse(s):
Juliane Hund
Children:
Barbara Hund
Isabel Hund
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gerhard Friedrich Hund (February 4, 1932 Leipzig) is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
He is the eldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (1950–1951) and at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1951–1955). After graduation, he was collaborator of Alwin Walther at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
From 1961 to 1995 he was Chief Executive of Bayer in Leverkusen.
Medal of the Chamber of Commerce of Cologne (1986)