# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-billing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:06:10.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-billing"
name: "Heinz Billing"
slug: "heinz-billing"
description: "Heinz Billing was a German physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector."
tagline: "German physicists (1914-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heinz_Billing-2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1914-04-07"
deathDate: "2017-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump