12 Facts About Heinrich Barkhausen

Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was a German physicist who established an influential research laboratory in Dresden.

Heinrich Barkhausen is remembered in the Barkhausen criteria for electrical oscillators.

Heinrich Barkhausen studied at Bremen Gymnasium and showed interest in natural sciences from an early age.

Heinrich Barkhausen worked as a railway engineering trainee before going to study at the Technical University of Munich, TU Berlin and University of Munich and Berlin and obtaining a doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1907 with a thesis on the generation of oscillations.

Heinrich Barkhausen then became a researcher in the Berlin laboratory of Siemens and Halske.

Heinrich Barkhausen became the first professor of electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Dresden in 1911 at the age of 29, thus obtaining the world's first chair in this discipline.

Heinrich Barkhausen became a significant teacher and conducted influential research.

Heinrich Barkhausen proposed the use of the phon as a unit of loudness.

Heinrich Barkhausen wrote a four volume textbook on electron tubes, Lehrbuch der Elektronenrohren, Elektronenrohren und ihre technischen Anwendungen, which was influential.

In 1933 Heinrich Barkhausen signed the Loyalty Oath of German Professors to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.

Heinrich Barkhausen received the Morris Liebmann Prize of the same year from the Institute of Radio Engineers.

Heinrich Barkhausen returned to Dresden after the war and was involved in rebuilding the institute.