Walter Schottky Facts
Walter Schottky Facts
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| Walter Schottky was born in Zurich, Switzerland, while his father, Friedrich Hermann Schottky, was professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich. |
| In 1892 the family moved to Germany when his father was posted to the University of Marburg. |
| Walter Schottky graduated from the Steglitz Gymnasium. |
| In 1908 he earned a B.S. in physics at the University of Berlin. |
| In 1912 he received his PhD in physics from Humboldt University with a thesis titled was Zur relativtheoretischen Energetik und Dynamik. |
| Max Planck and Heinrich Rubens were his teachers at Humboldt University. |
| From 1912 to 1914 he studied at the University of Jena. |
| In 1918 he patented a superheterodyne. |
| From 1919 to 1923 he was a lecturer at the University of Wurzburg. |
| He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rostock from 1923 to 1927. |
| In 1924 Schottky and Erwin Gerlach invented the ribbon microphone. |
| They discovered that a fine ribbon could generate electric signals when suspended in a magnetic field. |
| Schottky's most important contribution was his discovery of the formula which computes the energy between a point charge and a flat metal surface. |
| Several electrical conductor effects are named for Schottky including the Schottky emission, the Schottky effect and the Schottky-Nordheim barrier. |
| Certain metal-semiconductor junctions are known a Schottky contact. |
| In 1936 he received the Hughes Medal for his discovery of spontaneous current variations in high-vacuum discharge tubes. |
| In 1964 he received the Werner von Siemens Ring for his scientific works. |
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