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Hugo Thiemann (February 2, 1917 – June 10, 2012) was a Swiss R&D manager and visionary. He was a founding member of the ''Club of Rome''. == Life == Hugo Ernst Thiemann was born in Heiden, Switzerland, then educated in nearby St. Gallen, Switzerland. He studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), graduated in 1939 and got his PhD in 1947. There, he was assistant to Professor Fritz Fischer (physicist), known as the inventor of the Eidophor large-screen video projection system, at the Institute of Technical Physics. Thiemann was leading the Eidophor project from 1941 onwards.〔Hugo Thiemann: ''Fernsehbilder im Kino - Mit dem Eidophor beeindruckt die GRETAG Hollywoodgrössen''. In: Franz Betschon et al. (Hrsg.): ''Ingenieure bauen die Schweiz – Technikgeschichte aus erster Hand'', S. 439-445, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03823-791-4〕 He lost an eye during his education according to his autobiography (unpublished). In 1946 he married Marianne Beatrice Sturzenegger.〔Buergerbuch Ortsgemeinde St. Gallen, 1990, p.1062〕 When the Eidophor project was transferred from the ETH to Dr. Edgar Gretener AG, a small Swiss company, he joined this company, which was founded by his former colleague Gretener. Later, Thiemann joined the European subsidiary of the Battelle Memorial Institute, Geneva, in 1953 and was its general manager for over 20 years. In 1974 he became general manager of Nestec SA, Vevey, Switzerland, charged with the coordination of all R&D in the Nestlé Group until 1985.〔(Biography of Hugo Thiemann, Library of the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland )〕 Although of German mother tongue, he spent most of his professional life together with his family in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, where he died at the age of 95. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugo Thiemann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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