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Max Knoll
German engineer (1897-1969) · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Died at 72
Max Knoll (17 July 1897 - 6 November 1969) was a German electrical engineer and co-inventor of the electron microscope.
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Knoll 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.
