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Manfred von Ardenne
German researcher and applied physicist (1907–1997)
Manfred baron von Ardenne (German pronunciation:[ˈmanfʁeːtfɔnaʁˈdɛn]; 20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher, autodidact in applied physics, and an inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his self-funded and private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik, where he developed and invented many techniques used in modern physics.
After the World War II, von Ardenne was held in Soviet custody and was one of many of the German nuclear physicists in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and later honored with the Stalin Prize by the former Soviet Union.
Upon his return to the then East Germany, he started another private engineering firm, Forschungsinstitut Manfred von Ardenne. Ardenne is seen as one of the main inventors of the television.[1][2 The East German Friedensrat (Peace Council) had invited me to meet a person they believed would interest me. They were working hard to gain recognition in the West and were ready to invite anyone they believed had any influence, however modest, in the West. I had started a career at Nottingham University at that time but, through journalism, had met many prominent people. The man I went to see, Manfred von Ardenne, in the palatial ‘club’ certainly fitted the setting. He was well-dressed, charming with an air of quiet authority. It was easy to forget the devastating Anglo-US bombing raids of February 1945 on Dresden, then considered one of the world’s most beautiful cities because of its architecture and art treasures. Many thousands died in what was perhaps the most devastating Allied raid on Germany in WWII. We did not talk about that! We uttered some of the usual platitudes about peace, the ‘fight for peace’ and so on as well as some of the other places in Germany I had visited in the past. What of the palatial club? The clu The German physicist and inventor, Manfred von Ardenne is probably best known for his involvement in the atomic bomb project in the Soviet Union. However, he also played an important role in electron microscopy and went into history as the inventor of scanning electron microscope. After Ernst Ruska who developed the first electron microscope, Manfred von Ardenne is one of the most important figures in the field of electron microscopy although his invention became fit for practical use only when his instrument was further developed by the British physicist and electronic engineer Sir Charles Oatley in the mid-1960s. Manfred von Ardenne was born in 1907 in Hamburg to a wealthy family. Already as a child, von Ardenne was interested in everything involving technology and enjoyed support of his parents. In 1919, he continued his education at the Realgymnasium in Berlin, while his interest in technology and physics developed into a serious scientific research. In 1923 – at the age of 15 years, he ob
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