Walter Guggenbühl

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Walter Guggenbühl (born March 3, 1927 in Zurich ) is a Swiss electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Walter Guggenbühl attended elementary schools in Meilen in the canton of Zurich. This was followed by the upper secondary school of the canton school in the city of Zurich. After passing the high school diploma, he began studying electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich in 1946 , which he completed in 1950 as a graduate engineer. This was followed by two years as an assistant at the electrical engineering institute at the same university. Then he joined the Institute for Advanced Electrical Engineering as a research assistant under the direction of Max Strutt and dealt with problems of transistor technology and the spontaneous fluctuations of electrical switching elements. During this time he was supported financially by the BBC Donation . He submitted his dissertation in 1955 under the title Contributions to the Knowledge of Semiconductor Noise with Special Consideration of Crystal Diodes and Transistors .

From 1959 to 1970 Guggenbühl was a private lecturer for circuit technology of semiconductor components at the ETH Zurich, from 1970 as adjunct professor. In 1973 he followed the call as full professor for electronic circuit technology. During his time as a university lecturer at the ETHZ, he introduced a generation of students to transistor technology, after circuits had only been designed with electron tubes shortly before .

He retired in 1993 .

Fonts

  • Walter Guggenbühl: About the limits of the electrical load capacity of flat transistors. Habilitation thesis. ETH Zurich, 1959.
  • Maximilian Strutt, Walter Guggenbühl, Willy Wunderlin: Semiconductors and semiconductor diodes. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1962.
  • Walter Guggenbühl: transistor circuits. Lecture text. ETHZ.

Individual notes

  1. ↑ Walter Guggenbühl: Contributions to the knowledge of semiconductor noise with special consideration of crystal diodes and transistors. Dissertation ETH. Juris-Verlag, Zurich 1955. (CV p. 98)
  2. ↑ Professors at ETH Zurich. ETH History, accessed on April 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Guggenbühl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich