Werner was able to go to England in 1938 where he attended school, while Carl Hellmut[nb 1] emigrated to the United States.
[4] Because of the threat of invasion in May 1940, Werner with other refugee students was interned by the British and later sent to Canada.
His work involved setting standards in the field of character encoding on computing systems.
[5][1][2][3] A byte was an ordered collection of bits, which were the smallest amounts of data that a computer could process ("bite").
He worked 40 years at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he participated in the development of the computer.