# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-knoll
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:10:36.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-knoll"
name: "Max Knoll"
slug: "max-knoll"
description: "Max Knoll (17 July 1897 – 6 November 1969) was a German electrical engineer and co-inventor of the electron microscope.\nKnoll was born in Wiesbaden and studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at the Technische Hochschule München and the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg, 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 co-worker, Ernst Ruska, invented the electron microscope in 1931. In April 1932, Knoll joined Telefunken in Berlin to do developmental work in the field of television design. He was also a private lecturer in Berlin."
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birthDate: "1897-07-17"
deathDate: "1969-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump