PHYSICIST

Walter H. Schottky

1886 - 1976

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Walter Hans Schottky (23 July 1886 – 4 March 1976) 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 while working at Siemens, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Erwin Gerlach in 1924 and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, technical physics and technology. The Schottky effect (a thermionic emission, important for vacuum tube technology), the Schottky diode (where the depletion layer occurring in it is called the Schottky barrier), the Schottky vacancies (or Schottky defects), the Schottky anomaly (a peak value of the heat capacity) and the Mott-Schottky equation (also Langmuir-Schottky space charge law) were named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter H. Schottky has received more than 181,842 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Walter H. Schottky is the 359th most popular physicist (down from 356th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 174th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter H. Schottky ranks 359 out of 851. Before him are Heinrich Geißler, Galileo Ferraris, Auguste Bravais, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, George Uhlenbeck, and George Francis FitzGerald. After him are Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Walter H. Schottky ranks 68. Before him are Sessue Hayakawa, Werner Kempf, Hugh Lofting, Mary Wigman, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, and Nobutake Kondō. After him are Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Joe Masseria, Frederic Bartlett, Taimur bin Feisal, Edward Bach, and Ali Sami Yen. Among people deceased in 1976, Walter H. Schottky ranks 67. Before him are Arnold Gehlen, Walter Warlimont, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Abdul Razak Hussein, Alexandros Panagoulis, and Adolph Zukor. After him are Orlando Letelier, Gottfried von Cramm, Willi Hennig, Harry Nyquist, Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, and Hans Richter.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walter H. Schottky ranks 165 out of 1,015. Before him are Charles Bally (1865), Kurt Huber (1893), Édouard Claparède (1873), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Ernest Ansermet (1883), and Robert Frank (1924). After him are Marc Allégret (1900), Ueli Maurer (1950), Peter Sauber (1943), Grock (1880), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Bernard Tschumi (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Walter H. Schottky ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), K. Alex Müller (1927), Felix Bloch (1905), Auguste Piccard (1884), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), and Ami Argand (1750). After him are Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Alfred Kleiner (1849), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), and Paul Scherrer (1890).

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