Robert Adler
Robert Adler ( born December 4, 1913 in Vienna, † February 15, 2007 in Boise, Idaho, USA) was an American physicist, electronics engineer and inventor of Austrian origin.
Life
Robert Adler was the son of the Austro-Marxists and sociologists Max Adler and Jenny Heart Mark (1877-1950), a doctor from Riga. Adler studied physics at the University of Vienna. In 1937 he wrote his dissertation entitled " About a highly sensitive Differenzialmanometer ". Two years later, he emigrated in 1939 because of his Jewish ancestry and connection to the UK and 1940 in the U.S.. From 1941 on, he worked in the research laboratory of the Zenith Radio Corporation in Chicago until 1978. It was 1963, the vice president of the research division of Zenith. From 1978 to 1982, he accepted a professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign true. He then worked until 1999 as a technical consultant for various companies in the IT industry such as Motorola and Elo TouchSystems.
Adler had logged over the course of his life, more than 180 patents in the U.S., the most famous was his Miterfindung the TV remote control. Among other things, he also worked on the development of touch screens on the basis of SAW phenomena.
His first wife died in 1993. Robert Adler is survived by his second wife Ingrid in Northbrook, Illinois.