Max Knoll
Max Knoll (born July 17, 1897 in Schlangenbad ; † November 6, 1969 in Munich ) was a German electrical engineer . Together with Ernst Ruska, he developed the world's first electron microscope .
After studying in Munich, Knoll did his doctorate at the TH Berlin at the Institute for High Voltage Technology . In 1927 he took over the working group for electron research, where Ernst Ruska was one of his employees. With it he developed from research on cathode-ray - oscilloscope 1931, the first electron microscope .
From April 1932 until the end of the war he headed the development of television tubes at Telefunken in Berlin , at the same time he was a private lecturer at the TH. From 1948 to 1956 he was a professor of electrical engineering and electron optics at Princeton University in the USA . He then took over the management of the newly founded Institute for Electronics at the Technical University of Munich .
He received numerous honors for his developments in the field of electron microscopy, including the Silver Leibniz Medal of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1941, an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1965 and an honorary membership of the German Society for Electron Microscopy in 1967. He died in Munich in 1969.
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- Lin Qing: On the early history of the electron microscope. Publishing house for the history of natural science. und der Technik, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-928186-02-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Knoll in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knoll, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Snake bath |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1969 |
| Place of death | Munich |