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Born July 23, 1886 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 4, 1976 (aged 89) • Germany
Inventions tetrode
Notable Works “Thermodynamik”
Subjects Of Study Schottky defect • Schottky effect • thermodynamics • Schottky diode • electronics
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematician and physicist
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Polish-born Dutch physicist
Erwin Wilhelm Müller
American physicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas
American scientist and inventor
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Harry Nyquist
American physicist
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
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Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
Gérard Mourou
French physicist
CCD
Willard Boyle
Canadian-American physicist

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