Rudolf Kompfner
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| Born | (1909-05-16)May 16, 1909 |
| Died | December 3, 1977(1977-12-03) (aged 68)
Stanford, California, United States
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oxford University, D.Phil. |
| Awards | Duddell Medal and Prize (1955) Stuart Ballantine Medal (1960) IEEE Medal of Honor(1973) National Medal of Science (1974) |
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| Fields | Electrical engineering |
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 tube (TWT).
Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents.[1] He was originally trained as an architect and after receiving his university degree in 1933 he moved to England (due to the rise of anti-Semitism), where he worked as an architect until 1941. He had a strong interest in physics and electronics, and after being briefly detained by the British at the start of World War II he was recruited to work in a secret microwave vacuum tube research program at the University of Birmingham. While there, Kompfner invented the TWT in 1943. After the war he became a British citizen, continued working for the Admiralty as a scientist, and also studied physics at the University of Oxford, receiving his D.Phil. in 1951.[2]
In 1965, he received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology.[3]
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