Peter Läuchli (June 4, 1928 to May 12, 2021) was a Swiss computer scientist born and raised in Zurich and Winterthur. He studied theoretical physics at ETH Zurich, working as an assistant and research associate at its Institute of Applied Mathematics from 1954 to 1964, earning his doctorate in 1959 and completing his habilitation in 1961. He was elected assistant professor of applied mathematics in 1964 and associate professor of computer science in 1968, becoming a full professor of computer science at ETH in 1983. He was one of the founders, together with Niklaus Wirth, Carl August Zehnder and Jurg Nievergelt, of ETH's independent Division for Computer Science in 1981, and one of the founders of Switzerland's Fachgruppe fur Computerwissenschaften, having entered scientific computing very early in his career. He retired from ETH in October 1993.
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