biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–90)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He joined the staff at Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1935 after gaining his PhD from Cornell University. While at RCA he invented the image orthicon television camera tube which was first used for military purposes during World War 2 before becoming the electronic eye for all television cameras. In 1955 he directed research at the RCA laboratory in Zurich, returning in 1957 to the RCA-David Sarnoff Research Center. Widely honoured, he wrote several books including Vision: Human and Electronic (1974). |
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