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Karl Ferdinand Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊn] ⓘ; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology and built the first semiconductor .
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Jul 20, 1998 · Nobel Prize (1909) Ferdinand Braun (born June 6, 1850, Fulda, Hesse-Kassel [now in Germany]—died April 20, 1918, Brooklyn N.Y., U.S.) was a German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 with Guglielmo Marconi for the development of wireless telegraphy. Braun received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1872.
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Jun 6, 2021 · Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850 – 1918) On June 6, 1850, inventor, engineer, and Nobel laureate Karl Ferdinand Braun was born. Braun was particularly instrumental in making electromagnetic radiation, which had been experimentally proven by Heinrich Hertz [ 1] in 1888, usable for communications technology.
May 11, 2018 · Ferdinand Braun >The German physicist Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) received the Nobel Prize >[1] in Physics for his work on wireless telegraphy. Karl Ferdinand Braun [2] was born in Fulda, Germany, on June 6, 1850, the son of Konrad and Franziska (Gohring) Braun.
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Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology and built the first semiconductor. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy", was a founder of Telefunken, one of ...
Karl Ferdinand Braun. 1850-1918. German physicist who was known for his improvements in the fields of radio, television, and electronics. Braun's first great work was to convert alternating current, which travels in two directions, to direct current, which travels in one direction, which helped to improve radio signals. In 1897, he completed ...
Search for: 'Karl Ferdinand Braun' in Oxford Reference ». (1850–1918) German physicist,who became professor of physics at Strasbourg in 1895. In the early 1900s he used crystals as diodes (later employed in crystal-set radios) and developed the cathode-ray tube for use as an oscilloscope. He also worked on radio and in 1909 shared the Nobel ...
