Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. He was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary (now called Lviv in Ukraine).
Ph.D. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (renamed in 1949), Berlin, on February 18, 1905. From 1900 to 1904 he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. In 1905 he started to work at the physics institute at the University of Leipzig. Lilienfeld attained the habilitation i...
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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. He was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary (now called Lviv in Ukraine).
Ph.D. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (renamed in 1949), Berlin, on February 18, 1905. From 1900 to 1904 he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. In 1905 he started to work at the physics institute at the University of Leipzig. Lilienfeld attained the habilitation in 1910.
Lilienfeld's early career was at the University of Leipzig, where he did important early work on electrical discharges in "vacuum", between metal electrodes, from about 1910 onwards. His early passion was to clarify how the phenomena changed as vacuum preparation techniques improved. More than any other scientist, he was responsible for the identification of (what we would now call) field electron emission as a separate physical effect. (He called it "auto-electronic emission", and was interested in it as a possible electron source for...
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