MThis year, the Philipp Reis Prize will honor a scientist who researches data security and coding information. The award, worth 10,000 euros, goes to Antonia Wachter-Zeh, professor at the Technical University of Munich, as the city of Friedrichsdorf (Hochtaunuskreis) announced. The prize, named after the inventor of the telephone, is awarded every two years for outstanding achievements in the field of communications technology. It is donated by the Hessian cities of Friedrichsdorf and Gelnhausen as well as the Association of Electrical Engineering Electronics Information Technology and Deutsche Telekom. The prize will be presented on Wednesday, November 8th in Friedrichsdorf.
Johann Philipp Reis was born in Gelnhausen and was a teacher at the Institut Garnier, a school in Friedrichsdorf, so these two cities jointly remember the inventor who gave his telephone the name “Telephone”.
Experience in France and Israel
The engineer Wachter-Zeh, born in 1985, has contributed in many ways to the current state of knowledge in communications technology, especially with her contributions to encryption, as the city of Friedrichsdorf says. She is currently working on distributed data storage and coded computation, among other things. According to her university, she uses algebraic constructions for encryption. The scientist has already received several awards, including the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation. After studying and completing her doctorate in Ulm and at the French University in Rennes, she worked for three years at a technological institute in Haifa in Israel before receiving a professorship in Munich.
Philipp Reis (1834–1874) developed his invention, the device for transmitting language using electricity, in a barn, without a university, research funding or sponsors. He built his telephone in his free time alongside his work as a teacher. In the shed he also experimented with concave mirrors and a steam engine, and invented a vehicle, the forerunner of the bicycle, which was moved with hand-operated levers. In 1861, the amateur presented his “telephone” to the members of the Physical Society in Frankfurt. After that, he initially stopped pursuing this invention and only started working on it again shortly before his death, so there was no longer enough time to further develop the device and bring it to market maturity.
After the inventor’s death, Alexander Graham Bell, who came from Scotland, did this in the United States by adding new components to the technology developed by Reis and thus improving the sound quality of the transmission – and was the first to register a patent for the telephone.
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