Petri nets named after German computer scientist Carl Adam Petri

Petri nets are named after Carl Adam Petri, a German mathematician and computer scientist [1-3]. He was born in 1926 in Leipzig, invented Petri nets at the age of 13 and introduced the concept of Petri nets in his dissertation in 1962. Petri died in 2010 [4], but his ideas found places and transitions in various fields including biology and chemistry.

In the Journal Molecular Informatics, Ina Koch has published an instructive review on the history, state-of-the-art and current limitations of Petri nets applied to the modeling of complex systems [3]. Further documentations, work and Petri-net software is available online [5,6].

Petri nets connecting languages:
Dutch: petrinetten
French: réseaux de Petri
German: Petrinetze
Spanish: redes de Petri

References
[1] IEEE Computer Society: Carl Adam Petri - 2008 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient.
[www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/petribio]
[2] Informationsdienst Wissenschaft: Carl Adam Petri erhält den "Computer Pioneer Award." [idw-online.de/pages/de/news305378]
[3] Ina Koch: Petri Nets - A Mathematical Formalism to Analyze Chemical Reaction Networks. Mol. Inf. 2010, 29, pp. 838-843.
DOI: 10.1002/minf.201000086.
[4] Carl Adam Petri dies - his ideas live on.
[petri-grt.blogspot.com/2010/07/carl-adam-petri-dies-his-ideas-live-on.html]
[5] Petri Nets World [www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/]
[6] Inspired by Carl Adam Petri's work, Cornelio Hopmann is working on and blogging/documenting work in progress on mathematical models including Q-Orders and Einstein Spaces
[petri-grt.blogspot.com/]