Karl Ferdinand Braun

2026-06-04

What happened to Karl Ferdinand Braun today?

No new stories today yet — we check every few minutes.

Browse by day

Today
06-04
—
Yesterday
06-03
—
6/2
Tue
—
6/1
Mon
—
5/31
Sun
—
5/30
Sat
—
5/29
Fri
—
5/28
Thu
—
5/27
Wed
—
5/26
Tue
—
5/25
Mon
—
5/24
Sun
—
5/23
Sat
—
5/22
Fri
—

By week:This week Last week W21 W20

By month:This month Last month 2026-04

By year:This year 2025 2024

Who is this?

Karl Ferdinand Braun (German: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊ̯n] ; 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. His invention of the phased array antenna in 1905 led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO. Braun built the first cathode-ray tube in 1897, w

What happened recently

Nothing new yet — we check every few minutes.

Similar stars