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He is also pretty well known in Germany. That (I guess you could call it local fame) seems about appropriate for what he did. He is no Turing, after all.

The new computer science and automation building of my university in Germany (now the second largest building on the campus) was named after Zuse. I would say that’s quite the honor and recognition, especially considering the other buildings are named after Humboldt, Newton (mechanical engineering), Kirchhoff (electrical engineering), Helmholtz, Leibniz (library), Röntgen, Curie and Faraday.



A nice permanent exhibit in the engineering and technology museum in Berlin testifies to him being well known in Germany.


This was just a small part of that exhibit that I photographed in the Deutsches Technikmuseum: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87883903@N00/4279979012/




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