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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).


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