Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner | |
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| Born | May 16, 1909 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).
Life
Kompfner was born in
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]
Patents
1957
- Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier. (Issued 8/27/57.)
- Traveling Wave Tube. (Issued 10/29/57.)
- Electron Beam System. (Issued 11/5/57.)
1958
- Traveling Wave Tube. (Issued 5/13/58.)
- Electron Beam System. (Issued 10/21/58.)
- Non-reciprocal Wave Transmission. (Issued 11/11/58.)
1959
- Traveling Wave Tube. (Issued 1/6/59.)
- Direct View Storage Tube. (Issued 3/24/59.)
- Backward Wave Tube. (Issued 6/16/59.)
- Traveling Wave Tube. (Issued 7/14/59.)
- Apparatus Utilizing Slalom Focusing. (Issued 8/11/59.)
- Non-reciprocal Wave Transmission Device. (Issued 11/3/59.)
- Backward Wave Amplifier. (Issued 12/8/59.)
1960
- Non-reciprocal Elements in Microwave Tubes. (Issued 1/26/60.)
- Coaxial Couplers. (Issued 2/16/60.)
- Pulse Coincidence Detecting Tube. (Issued 4/19/60.)
- Electron Gun for Slalom Focusing Systems. (Issued 5/31/60.)
- High Efficiency Velocity Modulation Devices. (Issued 8/16/60.)
- Traveling Wave Tube. (Issued 10/4/60.)
1961
- Low Noise Amplifier. (Issued 2/14/61.)
- High Frequency Amplifier. (Issued 2/21/61.)
- Backward Wave Tube. (Issued 5/23/61.)
- Elastic Wave Parametric Amplifier. (Issued 12/5/61.)
1962
- Parallel High Frequency Amplifier Circuits. (Issued 2/15/62.)
- Scanning Horn-Reflector Antenna. (Issued 2/13/62.)
- Microwave Filter. (Issued 6/26/62.)
- Broadband Cyclotron Wave Parametric Amplifier. (Issued 8/28/62.)
- High Frequency Generator. (Issued 12/4/62.)
1964
- Traveling Wave Light Modulator. (Issued 5/12/64.)
- Artificial Scattering Elements for Use as Reflectors in Space Communication Systems. (Issued 9/29/64.)
- Detector for Optical Communication System. (Issued 10/27/64.)
1965
- Beam Collector with Auxiliary Collector for Repelled or Secondarily-Emitted Electrons. (Issued 6 /8/65.)
- Antenna System. (Issued 7/20/65.)
- Sinusoidal-Shaped Lens for Light Wave Communication. (Issued 12/21/65.)
- Transmission of Light Waves. (Issued 12/21/65.)
1966
- Optical Maser Amplifier. (Issued 5/24/66.)
- Antenna System. (Issued 9/13/66.)
- Triple Element S-Lens Focusing System. (Issued 11/15/66.)
1967
- Spherical Reflector Elastic Wave Delay Device with Planar Transducers. (Issued 5/2/67.)
1969
- Intracavity Image Converter. (Issued 7/8/69.)
1970
- Receiving Antenna Apparatus Compensated for Antenna Surface Irregularities. (Issued 1/13/70.)
- Anti-Doppler Shift Antenna for Mobile Radio. (Issued 3/24/70.)
- Multiple-Pass Light-Deflecting Modulator. (Issued 3/31/70.)
- Multiple-Pass Light-Deflecting Modulator. (Issued 3/31/70.)
- Optical Waveguide. (Issued 4/14/70.)
- Time Division Multiplex Optical Transmission System. (Issued 4/l4/70.)
- Digital Light Deflecting Systems. (Issued 6/2/70.)
- Method and Apparatus for Obtaining 3-Dimensional Images from Recorded Standing Patterns. (Issued 7/14/70.)
- Optical Heterodyne Receiver with Pulse Widening or Stretching. (Issued 9/22/70.)
- Light Communication System with Improved Signal- to-Noise Ratio. (Issued 10/6/70.)
1977
- Method of and Apparatus for Acoustic Imaging. (Issued 3/15/77.)
References
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ IEEE Global History Network (2011). "Rudolf Kompfner". IEEE History Center. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "TU Wien: Akademische Würdenträger". 21 February 2016. Archived from the original on 21 February 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Kompfner, Rudolf (November 1964). The Invention of the Traveling-Wave Tube. San Francisco Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0911302011.
External links
- "IEEE Medal Of Honor Recipients, 1973" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)., p. 4
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
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