Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. He born 20 June 1954 in Germany. He received his PhD at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1989. He is most known for his creation of an audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3. He worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories for a year, and he has been granted 27 US patents as a co-inventor; all patents have multiple inventors. He has won the German Internet Award NEO (2001) and the IEEE Engineering Excellence Award (2000).

Karlheinz Brandenburg

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