About Konrad Zuse
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.
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Awards & Honors
Cothenius Medal
Ernst Reuter Medal
Philip Morris Research Prize
Konrad Zuse Medal
Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille
Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
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Computer History Museum Fellow
honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Wilhelm Exner Medal
Werner von Siemens Ring
