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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter H. Schottky has received more than 171,115 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter H. Schottky is the 356th most popular physicist (down from 345th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter H. Schottky ranks 356 out of 717. Before him are Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. After him are Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, Oskar Klein, Paul Drude, Louis Slotin, and Anna Mani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Walter H. Schottky ranks 75. Before him are Joe Masseria, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Victor McLaglen, Hugh Lofting, and Edward Weston. After him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Amédée Ozenfant, Henry H. Arnold, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Edwin Fischer, and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.. Among people deceased in 1976, Walter H. Schottky ranks 72. Before him are Géza Anda, David Elazar, Alexandros Panagoulis, Lee J. Cobb, Willi Hennig, and Mickey Cohen. After him are Gilbert Ryle, Adolph Zukor, Mukaghali Makatayev, Yukio Goto, Orlando Letelier, and Hans Richter.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walter H. Schottky ranks 174 out of 876. Before him are Robert Frank (1924), Grock (1880), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Pietro Lombardo (1435). After him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Michel Simon (1895), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Leonardo Conti (1900), and Alexander Schallenberg (1969).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

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

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