Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium

The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratory ( NatLab ) is the research laboratory of Philips in Eindhoven. The laboratory is one of the world's research laboratories of Philips ( research laboratories in Germany, Hamburg and Aachen have now been closed). The NatLab was founded in 1914. In 1963 they moved to new buildings in Waalre, which is now incorporated but also in Eindhoven. Temporary (1975 ) worked there in 2000 employees, including 600 scientists. The research was, however, outsourced over time at Philips worldwide and in 2006 worked there for about 600 employees. Meanwhile, research in the area of ​​the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, with around 8000 employees, on the next Philips, other laboratories and companies. It was in 2012 sold by Philips to a group of investors.

The first director of NatLab Gilles Holst was Similar to Bell Labs in the U.S. basic research there has been operated so by Balthasar van der Pol. His colleague Bernard Tellegen invented there in 1926 for the pentode tube radios. In 1923, Albert Einstein visited the laboratory. Successor of Holst in 1946 was a group of three directors: the physicist Hendrik Casimir ( to 1972 Head of the Laboratory ), the chemist and the engineer Evert Verwey Herre Rinia. 1958 succeeded to the laboratory, the experimental confirmation of the Casimir effect by Marcus Sparnaay. Other highlights were the development of the audio cassette ( 1963), television camera tubes ( Plumbicon, EF de Haan ), the compact disc (including developed by Piet Kramer, simultaneously with Sony) in the late 1970s, with the first production at Philips in 1982. In the 1980s, a decline of Philips took place, which does not ausnahm the research Department and led to a fundamental reorganization under Kees Bulthuis in the late 1980s with savings and focus on product innovation. 2000, built on the site of NatLab the Philips High Tech Campus, which offered alongside about 800 employees of NatLab also room for other Philips Group parts and laboratories. Finally, the name was changed to the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, on the other companies will have access.