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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 .
Jun 6, 2012 · Karl Ferdinand Braun. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909. Born: 6 June 1850, Fulda, Hesse-Kassel (now Germany) Died: 20 April 1918, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, Germany (now France) Prize motivation: “in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy”.
Jun 2, 2024 · Ferdinand Braun 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. After appointments at Würzburg, Leipzig, Marburg, Karlsruhe, and Tübingen, he.
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Braun was made Professor of Physics at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe in 1883 and was finally invited by the University of Tübingen in 1885; one of his tasks there was to build a new Physics Institute.
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. He shared the prize with another inventor and scientist Guglielmo Marconi. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in the development of the technologies used in television and radio.
Bjerknes, in 1891, had suc-cessfully measured the damping and found the logarithmic decrement (as well known the measure for damping) for a linear oscillator to be 0.26, when he used only a minute spark gap. When, however, the spark gap was increased to 5 mm, the decrement rose to 0.40.
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Quick 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.
