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Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner
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Immediately after World War I, when the Allies still blockaded Austria, Dr. Kompfner was sent to stay with a Swedish family in order to escape starvation, for which we should all be eternally grateful.
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He was Director, Almond Franey and Sons, Ltd., Builders, London, in 193~1941. During this period, he not only designed buildings that still stand, but he also studied electron tubes in the Library of the Patent Office in Chancery Lane.
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Kompfner became enthusiastic about communication using light waves. His leadership played a large part in the exploration of various possibilities, which led ultimately to the first use of light-wave communication to carry commercial telephone traffic in Chicago in 1977.
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, and the Sylvanus Thompson Medal from the Routgen Society, Incorporated, with the British Institute of Radiology (1974~. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Oxford University in 1969 and an Honorary Doctorate of Technical Science from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1964—not as a former student of architecture, which would have been inadmissible, but allowable because he had never been a student of physics in that institution.
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No material rewards can produce el'f'ects even distantly approaching them. Yet another benefit is that an inventor can never be bored.
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