# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-h-schottky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:30.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-h-schottky"
name: "Walter H. Schottky"
slug: "walter-h-schottky"
description: "Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Erwin Gerlach in 1924, and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, technical physics, and technology."
tagline: "German physicist (1886–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Hermann_Schottky_(1886-1976).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-07-23"
deathDate: "1976-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump