Arthur Korn
Arthur Korn | |
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Died | 22 December 1945 , US | (aged 75)
Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | Physicist, mathematician, Inventor |
Arthur Korn (20 May 1870 – 21 December/22 December 1945) was a German
Life
Born in Breslau, Korn was the son of a
Dr. Korn, being of Jewish descent, was dismissed from his post in 1935 with the rise of the Nazi Party. In 1939 he left Germany with his family and moved to the United States, entering via Mexico. There, he took the chair in physics and mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He died in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1945.
Telecommunication pioneer
Korn experimented and wrote on long-distance photography, the phototelautograph.[2] He pioneered the use of light sensitive selenium cells which supplanted the function of the stylus,[3] and used a Nernst lamp as a light source. On 17 October 1906, he transmitted a photograph of Crown Prince William over a distance of 1800 km.[3][4]
At a 1913 conference in
He also worked on potential theory and the mathematics of physics.[2] He was an Invited Speaker for the ICM in 1908 in Rome and in 1932 in Zürich.
Works
- Eine Theorie der Gravitation und der elektrischen Erscheinungen auf Grundlage der Hydrodynamik (2nd ed., 1896)
- Ueber Molecular-Funktion (1897)
- Lehrbuch der Potentialtheorie (Berlin, 1899–1901)
- Freie und erzwungene Schwingungen (1910)
- Handbuch der Phototelegraphie (1911)
- Bildrundfunk with Eugen Nesper (1926)
He also contributed numerous articles to such journals as Berichte der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, and Naturwissenschaftliches Wochenschrift.
See also
- History of television
- Mechanical television
- German inventors and discoverers
- Granino A. Korn, son
- Theresa M. Korn, daughter-in-law and biographer of Arthur Korn
References
- ^ "Sending Photographs by Telegraph", The New York Times, Sunday Magazine, 20 September, 190 7, p. 7.
- ^ a b c Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- ^ a b c "17.10.1906: First Photoelectric Fax Transmission ", Deutsche Welle, Accessed 20.11.09
- ^ Solbert, Oscar N.; Newhall, Beaumont; Card, James G., eds. (September 1953). "Photos by Wire" (PDF). Image, Journal of Photography of George Eastman House. 2 (6). Rochester, N.Y.: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House Inc.: 35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Sending Photographs by Telegraph", The New York Times, New York, 24 February 1907, retrieved 1 June 2010