Walter Hehl

Walter Hehl (born 1944) is physicist by education and computer scientist by spending his professional life at IBM Research and Development. His interests span from physics and astronomy to philosophy and psychology. He is an evangelist of the philosophical meaning and importance of computer science ("there is almost only physics and computer science on physics in the world"). In his book on religion, he combines this for a critical and comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals of religion. In 2019, he received in Germany an award for an outstanding fair and critical book on Galileo Galilei. He lives near Zurich, Switzerland. Most of his publications are in German.