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Károly Simonyi (18 October 1916 – 9 October 2001) was a Hungarian physicist and writer. He was professor of electrical engineering at Technical University of Budapest and the author of the popular tabletop book A Cultural History of Physics ( A fizika kultúrtörténete, 1978).
Károly Simonyi (* 18. Oktober 1916 in Egyházasfalu, Königreich Ungarn; † 9. Oktober 2001 in Budapest) war ein ungarischer Physiker .
13. Nov. 2010 · Károly Simonyi (d.Ä.): Kulturgeschichte der Physik sozusagen das "Standard-Schmökerbuch" aller Physiker, die sich nebenbei ein wenig geistig bereichern wollen. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Physik von der frühen Antike bis quasi-heute.
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Early life
Simonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Károly Simonyi, was a Kossuth Prize-winning professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest, and created the first Hungarian nuclear particle accelerator. While in secondary school he worked part-time as a night watchman at a computer laboratory in the early 1960s, overseeing a large Soviet Ural II mainframe. He took an interest in computing and learned to program from one of the laboratory's engineers. By the time...
Career
At the age of 17, Simonyi left Hungary on a short-term visa but did not return. He was hired by Denmark's A/S Regnecentralen in 1966 where he worked with Per Brinch Hansen and Peter Kraft on the RC 4000 minicomputer's Real-time Control System, and with Peter Naur on the GIER ALGOLcompiler. He subsequently moved from Denmark to the United States in 1968 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his BS in Engineering Mathematics & Statistics in 1972 under Butler Lampson....
Microsoft
In 1981, at Metcalfe's suggestion, he visited Bill Gates at Microsoft who suggested Simonyi start an applications group at Microsoft with the first application being a WYSIWYG word processor. At Microsoft, Simonyi built the organization and applications of what became its most profitable products, Word and Excel, as well as Excel's predecessor Multiplan. For the applications, Simonyi pursued a strategy called the "revenue bomb", whereby the product ran on a virtual machine that was ported to...
Simonyi dated Martha Stewartfor 15 years until 2008. Simonyi is married to Lisa Persdotter, the daughter of a Swedish millionaire. She is 32 years his junior. They were married on November 22, 2008 in a private ceremony in Gothenburg, Sweden, attended by their closest friends, among them Bill Gates.The couple went on to have two daughters. Simonyi ...
In early 2006, Simonyi expressed interest in becoming a space tourist and signed agreements with the space tourism company, Space Adventures, Ltd., for a ten-day mission to the International Space Station(ISS). In August 2006, he passed a pre-qualification medical exam by the Russian Federal Space Agency, called the State Medical Commission (GMK). ...
"NASA biography of Charles Simonyi" (PDF). (20.4 KiB)Károly Simonyi hat an seinem Lebensabend die deutsche Ausgabe eigens bearbeitet, ergänzt und autorisiert. Das Buch behandelt die Physikgeschichte - in wechselseitiger Verbindung mit der Entwicklung des mathematischen und philosophischen Gedankenguts - von den frühen Anfängen bis zu den heutigen Tagen.
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Károly Simonyi hat an seinem Lebensabend die deutsche Ausgabe eigens bearbeitet, ergänzt und autorisiert. Das Buch behandelt die Physikgeschichte - in wechselseitiger Verbindung mit der Entwicklung des mathematischen und philosophischen Gedankenguts - von den frühen Anfängen bis zu den heutigen Tagen.
13. Mai 2024 · Károly Simonyi (* 18. Oktober 1916 in Egyházasfalu, Königreich Ungarn; † 9. Oktober 2001 in Budapest) war ein ungarischer Physiker.
