T. Peter Brody
Tamas Peter Brody , called Peter, (born April 18, 1920 in Budapest , † September 18, 2011 in Pittsburgh ) was a British-Hungarian physicist. He is a co-inventor of the active matrix displays with thin film transistors .
Life
Brody left Hungary in 1938 to study at the London College of Printing. During World War II he worked for the SOE (where he made it up to captaincy) and became a British citizen in 1948. He was musically gifted and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . At the same time he studied physics at the University of London and received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1953. He was a senior lecturer at the university until 1959 and then went to the research laboratories of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh .
At Westinghouse he worked both theoretically and experimentally on tunnel diodes, field emission, pattern recognition, semiconductor circuits, and injection luminescence, before turning to thin film transistors (TFT) and pioneering TFT on flexible substrates in 1968. In 1972 he developed active matrix displays (AMLCD), a key technology for liquid crystal displays . In a 1975 publication, he also introduced the term Active Matrix .
When Westinghouse discontinued the research program on which Brody was working in 1979, he left the company and founded Panelvision, which introduced the first AMLCDs to the US market in 1983. In 1985 the company was taken over by Litton Systems. In 1988 he founded Magnascreen to manufacture large flat panel displays, but left the company in 1990 and founded the consulting firm Active Matrix Associates, which carried out a number of secret projects for DARPA . In 1998 he invented a method to produce cheap electronic circuits in thin films using 3D printing, and in 2002 he and colleagues founded Amedeo (now Advantech US) with funding from Compaq . The company developed and produced AM technology for flat screens such as AM OLEDs . He was the company's chief scientist until his death.
He has published over 70 articles and received over 60 patents.
In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), whose Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize he received in 1987. In 1988 he received the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Eduard Rhein Prize , the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal in 2011 and the Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2012.
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| SURNAME | Brody, T. Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brody, Tamas Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh |