| Walter Schottky |
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| semiconductor physicists | |
| 1886 births | |
| 1976 deaths | |
| electrical engineers | |
| german physicists | |
| werner-von-siemens-ring laureates | |
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He was awarded the and his invention of the screen-grid tetrode and a Superheterodyne method of receiving wireless signals. In 1964 he received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring honoring his ground-breaking work on the physical understanding of many phenomenon that led to many important technical appliances, among them Tube Amplifier s and Semiconductor s. Note: The invention of superheterodyne is usually attributed to Edwin Armstrong . However, Schottky published an article in Proc. IRE that he had also invented something similar. His father was Mathematician Friedrich Hermann Schottky (1851–1935). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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