“What Have Mathematicians Done for Us”
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Ernst Alexanderson
Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor who was a pioneer in radio development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Alexanderson also created the amplidyne, a direct current amplifier used during the Second World War for controlling anti…
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science · Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor (1878–1975) · electrical engineer · inventor · electrician · also Ernst Alexanderson, Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson, Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, Alexanderson
Born 25 January 1878 · Died 14 May 1975 · Q472510
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2015· 1 entry
“How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths”
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2013· 1 entry
“Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM”
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2010· 1 entry
“Maths Doesn't Suck: How to survive year 6 through year 9 maths without losing your mind or breaking a nail”
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2005· 1 entry
“PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10”
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1983).
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1975· 2 entries
Died 1975-05-14.
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And was buried at Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, New York
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1952· 1 entry
“The Semantic Conception of Truth”
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology (1949).
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1944· 2 entries
Won Cedergren Medal (1944).
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Won Edison Medal (1944).
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1938· 1 entry
“Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals”
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1930· 1 entry
Conducted an early public demonstration of his large screen television system on a closed-circuit channel at Proctors in Schenectady
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1927· 1 entry
At his GE Plot home at 1132 Adams Rd, Schenectady, N
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1923· 1 entry
Alexanderson's son, Verner, was kidnapped
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1919· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1919).
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1902· 1 entry
And spent much of his life working for the General Electric and Radio Corporation of America
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-01-25.
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