INVENTOR

Karl Ferdinand Braun

1850 - 1918

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Karl Ferdinand Braun ( BROWN; German: [ˈkaʁl ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊn] ; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, physicist and inventor. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio when he invented the phased array antenna in 1905, which led to the development of radar, smart antennas and MIMO. He built the first cathode-ray tube, which led to the development of television. He also built the first semiconductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Ferdinand Braun has received more than 389,014 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Karl Ferdinand Braun is the 26th most popular inventor (down from 21st in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Germany (down from 167th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Inventor.

Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who is most famous for being the first person to invent the cathode-ray tube.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 26 out of 426. Before him are Abbas ibn Firnas, Werner von Siemens, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Samuel Colt, Ernő Rubik, and Ismail al-Jazari. After him are Antonio Meucci, Denis Papin, Steve Wozniak, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Thomas Newcomen, and Nicolas Appert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 8. Before him are Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, and Sofia Kovalevskaya. After him are Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, Mihai Eminescu, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Oliver Heaviside. Among people deceased in 1918, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 16. Before him are Egon Schiele, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Georg Cantor, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Georg Simmel, and Alexandra Feodorovna. After him are Louis Renault, Otto Wagner, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, and Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 261 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808). After him are Klaus Schwab (1938), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), Ernst Jünger (1895), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), and John of Austria (1547).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 5. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), Nikolaus Otto (1832), and Werner von Siemens (1816). After him are Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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