Birthdate: July 23, 1886
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Zürich, Switzerland
Died: March 4, 1976
Walter H. Schottky was a pioneering German physicist renowned for his significant contributions in electron and ion emission phenomena, semiconductor devices, and technical physics. He is credited with inventing the screen-grid vacuum tube and co-inventing the ribbon microphone and loudspeaker. His research on the Schottky effect, Schottky diode, Schottky vacancies, Schottky anomaly, and Mott-Schottky equation played a key role in advancing vacuum tube technology and semiconductor devices. Schottky’s investigations into electrical noise mechanisms, space charge, and barrier layers in semiconductors had a profound impact on the development of rectifiers and transistors.
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