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Karl Ferdinand Braun

1850 - 1918

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Karl Ferdinand Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊn] ; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology and built the first semiconductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Ferdinand Braun has received more than 363,329 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Karl Ferdinand Braun is the 21st most popular inventor (up from 23rd in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Germany (up from 181st in 2019) and the 4th 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 21 out of 354. Before him are Nikolaus Otto, George Stephenson, Cai Lun, Louis Daguerre, Nicéphore Niépce, and John Logie Baird. After him are Samuel Colt, Charles K. Kao, Thomas Newcomen, Antonio Meucci, Werner von Siemens, and James Naismith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 4. Before him are Jack the Ripper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Edward Smith, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Mihai Eminescu, and Pierre Loti. Among people deceased in 1918, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 15. Before him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Guillaume Apollinaire, Manfred von Richthofen, Georg Cantor, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and Georg Simmel. After him are Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, Otto Wagner, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis Renault, and Georgi Plekhanov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 167 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Gottlob Frege (1848), Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), and Erich Raeder (1876). After him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Otto Hahn (1879), Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805), Oswald Spengler (1880), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926), and Erich Hartmann (1922).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 4. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), and Nikolaus Otto (1832). After him are Werner von Siemens (1816), Konrad Zuse (1910), Karl Drais (1785), Hans Lippershey (1570), Emile Berliner (1851), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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