Isaac Shoenberg

Isaac Shoenberg ( born March 1, 1880 in Pinsk, † January 25, 1963 in London) was a Russian radio frequency engineer.

Work

He studied mathematics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering in St. Petersburg. Then he built the first Russian Funktelegrafiestation. Since his family had, however, to suffer from the anti-Jewish attitude, they emigrated in 1914 shortly before the outbreak of the First World War to Britain, where he worked with the Columbia Graphophone Company be implemented at various companies such as Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company and from 1928.

1931 to 1935 he conducted research at Electric and Musical Industries ( EMI) in the field of television technology, became head of the EMI research group developed a new television camera tube Emitron and improved. At the same time he created an improved high-vacuum cathode -ray tube for television receivers.

This television system placed the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in 1936 for the first in London broadcast public television transmission ( with 405 lines and 25 image changes per second) and remained until 1964 when this standard. For his television technical merits Isaac Shoenberg was knighted in 1962.

Germany's National Socialist government had mentioned nothing of it for propaganda purposes than to the Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936, the first electronic television outside broadcast system.

He was the father of the physicist David Shoenberg.