Max Knoll
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Max Knoll (17 July 1897 – 6 November 1969) was a German electrical engineer.
Knoll was born in Wiesbaden and studied in Munich and at the Technical University of Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in the Institute for high voltage technology. In 1927 he became the leader of the electron research group there, where he and his student, Ernst Ruska, co-invented the electron microscope. In April 1932, Knoll joined Telefunken in Berlin to do developmental work in the field of television, while remaining a private lecturer at Berlin. After World War II, Knoll joined the University of Munich as extraordinary professor and director of the institute for electromedicine. He moved to the USA in 1948, working at the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Princeton until 1956 when he returned to Munich. He retired in 1966.
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