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Categories: Radio pioneers, American anti-fascists, 20th-century American inventors, Academy Honorary Award recipients, American agnostics
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De Forest  Lee De Forest  Father of Radio  DeForest Company  Lee DeForest
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United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) WordNet 3.0
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United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Lee de Forest was an American inventor and a fundamentally important early pioneer in electronics. Wikipedia
American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit Wikipedia Disambiguation
American inventor Wikidata
IS A
inventor
electrical engineer
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AWARD RECEIVED
IEEE Edison Medal
IEEE Medal of Honor
Legion of Honour
Elliott Cresson Medal
National Inventors Hall of Fame
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Gibbs
EDUCATED AT
Yale University
Northfield Mount Hermon School
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
EMPLOYER
Illinois Institute of Technology
FIELD OF WORK
technology
GIVEN NAME
Lee
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
American Association for the Advancement of Science
MEMBER OF POLITICAL PARTY
Republican Party
NOMINATED FOR
Nobel Prize in Physics
NOTABLE WORK
triode
OCCUPATION
engineer
film director
physicist
film producer
electrical engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Council Bluffs
PLACE OF BURIAL
San Fernando Mission Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Hollywood
SEX OR GENDER
male
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio
Wikipedia
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Lee de Forest
Wikidata
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Lee de Forest
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DeForest Company, Lee De Forest, Lee DeForest

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