German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible. His invention of the phased array antenna in 1905 led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO. Braun built the first cathode-ray tube in 1897, which led to the development of television, and the first semiconductor diode in 1874, which co-started the development of electronics and electronic engineering.

Born

1850

June 6

Died

1918

Era

1850s

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Karl, in brief

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1918 Died

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1523 Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.

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The world in 1918

When Karl departed

april 1 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
april 20 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
april 21 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
april 23 World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1850

Florence Earle Coates 1850–1927 American poet (born 1850) George F. Durand 1850–1889 Canadian architect (born 1850) Henry Cabot Lodge 1850–1924 American historian and politician (died 1924) Luigi Cadorna 1850– Italian field marshal (died 1928) Mihai Eminescu 1850–1889 Romanian journalist, author, and poet (died 1889) Oliver Heaviside 1850– English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925) Ross Barnes 1850–1915 American baseball player and manager (born 1850) Samuel Gompers 1850–1924 English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (born 1850) Sofia Kovalevskaya 1850–1891 Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)

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