Aristid Lindenmayer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aristid Lindenmayer

Hungarian biologist

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1925

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1989

Profession: biologist, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary, United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Aristid Lindenmayer (17 November 1925 – 30 October 1989) was a Hungarian biologist.
In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems.
Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants.
L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula.
Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells.
Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures.