Petri Nets History

In this section of Petri Nets World you will find some nice articles about the history of Petri Nets and about the people who worked with them.

About Carl Adam Petri, who was the first to formally define the Petri Nets language. Petri did so with his PhD thesis (Kommunikation mit Automaten) in the beginning of the 60'ies.
- There is an excellent article about Carl Adam Petri, his exceptional life, and work. The article Carl Adam Petri and "Petri Nets" was written by Wilfried Brauer and Wolfgang Reisig and was translated from Informatik-Spektrum, Vol. 29, Nr. 5, pp. 369-374, Springer Verlag, 2006. You can download it here as [pdf] or [doc]. The German version can also be obtained as [pdf] or [doc].
- Carl Adam Petri has a homepage, with bibliography and Curriculum Vitae, at the following WWW address:
  - http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/profs/petri_eng.html
- There are several photographs available online of C.A. Petri: Dagstuhl 1996, and Zaragoza 1999.