Walther Bauersfeld is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Walther Bauersfeld as German physicist, mechanical engineer, employed by the Zeiss Corporation (1879–1959).
Walther Bauersfeld was born at Berlin in 1879. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives his occupations as physicist, engineer and mechanical engineer.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1953) and James Watt International Medal (1957).
Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Walther Bauersfeld died in 1959 at the age of 80. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 1953
- James Watt International Medal — 1957
- Worked as physicist, engineer and mechanical engineer
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