Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Ferdinand Braun

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun.
Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy", was a founder of Telefunken, one of the pioneering communications and television companies, and has been both called the "father of television"(shared with inventors like Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) and the co-father of the radio telegraphy, together with Marconi.

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study. — © Karl Ferdinand Braun
In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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