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John Ambrose Fleming
English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 November 1849, 1849
- Died
- 18 April 1945, 1945
- Place of birth
- Lancaster
- Place of death
- Sidmouth
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Fleming
- Field of work
- electrical engineering, diode, diode, valve amplifier, electric power converter, electric motor, transformer, wireless telegraphy, radiotelephony, history of technology, radio-frequency engineering, physics
- Occupation
- inventor, physicist, university teacher, electrical engineer
- Position held
- president of the Royal Television Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, IEEE Medal of Honor, Hughes Medal, Faraday Medal, Albert Medal, Franklin Medal, Knight Bachelor, Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Frederick Guthrie
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- medical condition
- hearing loss
- member of
- Royal Society
- name in native language
- John Ambrose Fleming
- noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- student of
- Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell
- writing language
- English
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