Paul K. Weimer

Paul K. Weimer ( born November 5, 1914 in Wabash, Indiana; † January 6, 2005 in Princeton ( New Jersey)) was an American physicist, the contributions to the development of television technology and contributed to the thin film transistor ( TFT).

Weimer studied at Manchester College in Indiana Mathematics and Physics with a bachelor 's degree in 1936, received his master's degree in 1938 in physics at the University of Kansas and wurdee 1942 doctorate at Ohio State University in physics. From 1942 he was in the RCA Laboratories in Princeton until his retirement in 1981.

His first task at RCA was the development of an electron amplifier for television camera tubes ( Image - orthicon ), which were used in the U.S. in the first twenty years of television recordings and was a hundred times more sensitive than its predecessor. The image orthicon was developed with Albert Rose and Harold Law.

In 1960 he began to deal with thin-film transistors and invented a manufacturing process on glass substrates. They used the TFT technology also produce television cameras.

He held over 90 patents, was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and from 1955 of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE ).

In 1966 he received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Award. He received the IRE Television Prize, the RCA David Sarnoff Outstanding Achievement Award in Science and in 1986 the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society for his Pionieerarbeiten at television cameras.