Ernst Alexanderson
Swedish-American electrical engineer
Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave... Wikipedia
Born: January 25, 1878, Uppsala, Sweden
Died: May 14, 1975 (age 97 years), Schenectady, NY
Education: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Awards: IEEE Medal of Honor (1919), IEEE Edison Medal (1944), and Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal (1947)
Parents: Aron Alexanderson