Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun 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. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy", was a founder of Telefunken, one of the pioneering communications and television companies, and has been both called the "father of television", "great grandfather of every semiconductor ever manufactured" and the co-father of the radio telegraphy, together with Marconi.

6 June 1850

Born on the same birth day (6 June): Diego Velázquez • Erich Marcks • Friedrich Bayer • Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin • Gavin Hoyte • Hamani Diori • Italo Balbo • Levi Stubbs • Manfred Sakel • Natalie Morales (journalist) • Pierre Corneille • Regiomontanus • Robert Falcon Scott • Sophie Jamal • Taichi Yamada • Willie John McBride

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