Robert von Lieben
Robert von Lieben · Science & Medicine
Physicist; early vacuum tube amplifier
1878, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Austria (Vienna) · Germany
Robert von Lieben is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; early vacuum tube amplifier
Robert von Lieben was a physicist and inventor who built an early amplifying vacuum tube (the Lieben tube), a cathode-ray amplifier with a control electrode that helped make long-distance telephony and radio amplification possible. Working with private means, he patented his device in 1906. He came from the prominent Viennese Jewish von Lieben banking family and was of documented Jewish origin.
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Physicist; early vacuum tube amplifier
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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