• Rudolf Kompfner (May 16, 1909 – December 3, 1977) was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave...
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    graduate student at Caltech, and its present form was invented by Rudolf Kompfner in 1942-43. The TWT belongs to a category of "linear beam" tubes, such...
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    Knowles (1667–1734), botanist Jeremy Knowles (1935–2008), enzyme chemist Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), engineer and physicist Harry Kroto (1939–2016), chemist...
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  • Kinnersley Ruth L. Kirschstein Harry Kloor J. Val Klump Brian Kobilka Rudolf Kompfner Daniel Kopans Michael J. Krische David E. Kuhl Thomas Kuhn Stephanie...
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    were demonstrated in 1951, M-type by Bernard Epsztein and O-type by Rudolf Kompfner. The M-type BWO is a voltage-controlled non-resonant extrapolation...
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  • (1911–2009), Netherlands – artificial kidney hemodialysis machine Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871)...
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    Kilby 1970—George Mueller 1973—Doc Edgerton, Richard T. Whitcomb 1974—Rudolf Kompfner, Ralph Brazelton Peck, Abel Wolman 1975—Manson Benedict, Bill Pickering...
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    transistor, and to the microscopic theory of superconductivity 1973 Rudolf Kompfner For a major contribution to world-wide communication through the conception...
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    satellite. In October 1958, Pierce, along with fellow Bell engineer Rudolf Kompfner, designed an experiment to observe atmospheric refractive effects using...
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    During World War II he discovered the work of Rudolf Kompfner in a British radar laboratory, where Kompfner had invented the traveling-wave tube; Pierce...
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    Dennis Gabor 1971: John Bardeen 1972: Jay W. Forrester 1973: Rudolf Kompfner 1974: Rudolf Kálmán 1975: John Robinson Pierce 1976: No Award 1977: H. Earle...
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  • Hoyt Taylor (Engineering) 1959 - Charles H. Townes (Physics) 1960 - Rudolf Kompfner (Engineering) 1960 - Harry Nyquist (Engineering) 1960 - John R. Pierce...
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  • Rudolf Kálmán, former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner Rudolf Kompfner...
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  • George Kalmus, 1988 Andrew Keller Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987 Rudolf Kompfner, invented the traveling wave tube Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist...
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    Society for the Education of Engineers Wilhelm Exner Medal (1972). Rudolf Kompfner Medal of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology...
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  • Rudder ratio Rudolf Clausius Rudolf Fleischmann Rudolf Grimm Rudolf Haag Rudolf Kingslake Rudolf Kohlrausch Rudolf Kompfner Rudolf Ladenburg Rudolf Luneburg...
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  • award was discontinued in 2016. Source: IEEE 1959: David Sarnoff 1960: Rudolf Kompfner 1961: Charles Townes 1962: Harry B. Smith 1963: Robert N. Hall 1964:...
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  • Jackson 1957 Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams 1956 John Gilbert Daunt 1955 Rudolf Kompfner 1954 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell 1953 William Sucksmith 1952 Cecil...
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  • Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research. 1976. pp. 41–64. Kompfner, Rudolf; Kino, Gordon S. (April 1978). "Acoustic scanning reflection-type microscope...
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