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Karl Ferdinand Braun

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed the cathode-ray tube

Did you know?He shared his Nobel Prize with Guglielmo Marconi for their pioneering work on wireless telegraphy.

Karl Ferdinand Braun (German:; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible.

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