Herbert W. King

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Herbert Wilhelm König (born May 26, 1908 in Neufeld an der Leitha , Burgenland ; † February 20, 1985 ) was an Austrian physicist and electrical engineer and professor of high frequency technology at the Vienna University of Technology . He was a pioneer of microwave technology and lasers in Austria.

König went to high school in Vienna and from 1927 studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna . In 1932 he received his doctorate under Hans Thirring (on the electron emission of oxide cathodes ). From 1933 he was a development engineer at Siemens & Halske in Berlin , where he became group leader in the microwave laboratory. In 1943 he became head of the laboratory for electron tubes and the manufacture of electron tubes at Siemens in Vienna. After completing his habilitation at the Vienna University of Technology (The behavior of electron flows in a longitudinal electric field), he became a private lecturer there in 1944 and a full professor for telecommunications technology ( high frequency technology ) in 1949 . After retiring in 1978, he lived in Rossatz-Arnsdorf .

He became internationally known for his run-time theory of the electron tubes , which he developed in his habilitation, developed independently by Frederick B. Llewellyn and LC Peterson of Bell Laboratories (Bell-Peterson equations, 1944) . He also examined the noise in microwave tubes and their energy balance. In 1962, after the invention of the laser, he turned to laser technology, making him a pioneer in Austria. Austria's first laser was at his institute. Among other things, he himself developed a laser radar system to regulate the distance on railways.

In 1968 he became a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1968 he received the Vienna Business Technology Prize. In 1972 he received the VDE Honor Ring. In 1976 he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize . He was the recipient of the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and received the Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl Medal in 1981 .

Fonts

  • Run-time theory of electron tubes, 2 volumes, Springer, Vienna 1948

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VDE ring of honor . Accessed January 31, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME King, Herbert W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Herbert Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Neufeld an der Leitha , Burgenland
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1985