Date of Birth
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23-July-1886
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Place of Birth
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Zürich
(Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, Zürich District)
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Nationality
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Germany
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Also know as
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Walter Schottky
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Profession
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Physicist, Electrical engineer, Engineer
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Walter Hermann Schottky was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the pentode in 1919 while working at Siemens, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Gerwin Erlach in 1924 and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, technical physics and technology.
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