| LC control no. | n 85153069 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-2002 |
| Variant(s) | Foerster, Heinz von, 1911-2002 Förster, Heinz von, 1911-2002 |
| Other standard no. | 118836560 |
| Associated country | Austria United States |
| Associated place | Champaign (Ill.) |
| Birth date | 1911-11-13 |
| Death date | 2002-10-02 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Pescadero (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Cybernetics |
| Affiliation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Philosophers Mathematicians University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Segal, Lynn. The dream of reality : Heinz von Foerster's constructivism, 1986: CIP title page (Heinz von Foerster) preface (Dr. Heinz von Foerster, a cybernetician, a mathematician, a physicist, and a philosopher) Phone call to publisher, December 6, 1985 (Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911-) LC database, March 14, 1990 (hdg.: Von Foerster, Heinz, 1911- ; Von Foerster, Heinz; Von Foerster, Heinz M.; usage: Heinz von Foerster) New York times, dateline November 9, 2002: obituaries (Heinz von Foerster; physicist, philosopher, information theorist; born 1911 in Vienna; died October 2, 2002, in Pescadero, California, at age 90) English Wikipedia, viewed September 11, 2023 (Heinz von Foerster; born Heinz von Förster on November 13, 1911, in Vienna, Austria; died October 2, 2002, in Pescadero, California; Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy; widely considered to be the originator of second-order cybernetics; studied in Vienna and Breslau, receiving his doctorate at Breslau in 1944; he moved to the United States in 1949 and taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online catalog, viewed September 11, 2023 (authorized access point: Von Foerster, Heinz; other data in authority record: Austrian-American mathematician, philosopher and physicist; born 1911 in Vienna; died 2002 in Pescadero, California) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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