Kompfner, Rudolf, 1909-1977
Rudolf Kompfner papers, 1937-1981.
The collection concentrates primarily on Professor Kompfner's research interests while at Bell Laboratories, Stanford University and Oxford University. Included are general correspondence files, diaries (1937-1941), notebooks and notes (1937-1977), articles and reports (1937-1980), awards, and drawings. Additional material received 1985 and 1987 includes correspondence, research files, notebooks, patent records, and publications.
Physicist (integrated optics, communications satellites, optical communications) and inventor of the traveling wave tube. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford, 1973-1977, Rudolf Kompfner was born in Vienna in 1909. He emigrated to England in 1934 and began a self-guided study of the field of physics. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford. Affiliations: Birmingham University (1941-1944); Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory (1944-1951); Bell Laboratories (1952-1973); on the faculties of both Stanford University and Oxford University (1973-1977). His invention of the traveling wave tube is credited with making future satellite communications practicable.
Benham, W. E.
Fuchs, Wolfgang.
Liebmann, Gerard.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
English Electric Valve Co.
Stanford University. Dept. of Applied Physics -- Faculty.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
Backward-wave tubes.
Physics -- Research.
Traveling-wave tubes -- Technological innovations.
Science -- History.
Articles. aat
Awards. aat
Diaries lcgft
Drawings. aat
Notebooks. aat
Reports. aat
AIP-ICOS
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Stanford, CA 94305, USA