List of Famous people with last name Schottky

Walter H. Schottky

First Name Walter

Last Name Schottky

Born on July 23, 1886

Died on March 4, 1976 (aged 89)

Born in Switzerland, Canton of Zürich

Walter Hans Schottky was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 while working at Siemens, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Erwin Gerlach in 1924 and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, technical physics and technology.

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Friedrich Schottky

First Name Friedrich

Last Name Schottky

Born on July 24, 1851

Died on August 12, 1935 (aged 84)

Born in Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Friedrich Hermann Schottky was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and introduced Schottky groups and Schottky's theorem. He was born in Breslau, Germany and died in Berlin.

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