Rudolf Bayer

Rudolf Bayer (born 3 March 1939) is a German computer scientist.

Rudolf Bayer
Born	(1939-03-03) March 3, 1939 (age 86)
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for	B-tree UB-tree red–black tree
Awards	Cross of Merit, First class (1999), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2001)
Scientific career
Institutions	Technical University Munich
Thesis	Automorphism Groups and Quotients of Strongly Connected Automata and Monadic Algebras (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Franz Edward Hohn[1]
Doctoral students	Christel Baier Volker Markl

He is a professor emeritus of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich where he has been employed since 1972. He is noted for inventing three data sorting structures: the B-tree (with Edward M. McCreight), the UB-tree (with Volker Markl) and the Red–black tree.

Bayer is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. In 2005 he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.^[2]