Edward Ramberg

Edward G. Ramberg (June 14, 1907 in Florence, Italy – January 9, 1995) was an American physicist who contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television. He was the uncle of Mario Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel laureate. His mother was an American painter, Lucy Dodd Ramberg (nee Dodd), and his father a German archaeologist, Walter Ramberg [cite web|url=http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/features/capecchi/|title=Scientist Profile:Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.|author=Susan Sample|publisher=University of Utah|date=2007] . His father was killed while serving in World War I.

Education

Ramberg and his mother moved from Italy to Munich for the remainder of World War I, and in 1920 they moved to his mother’s family home in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1922. That year he enrolled in Reed College, but two years later he transferred to Cornell University. During the years 1925 to 1927, he took a hiatus and worked for Bausch & Lomb on optical computing. Upon receipt of his bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 1928, he stayed at the University to work with K. F. Richtmyer. In 1930, Ramberg went to study with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1932. [ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich thesis title for Edward G. Ramberg’s doctorate under Arnold Sommerfeld: "Doppelsprünge im Röntgenspektrum: Die Deutung Der Satelliten K α 3, 4" (1932)] [ [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/ramberg.xml Ramberg Biography] – American Philosophical Society]

Career

Upon return to the United States from Munich, Ramberg returned to Cornell and continued the work on which he based his thesis: X-ray satellites and line widths. In 1935, he left Cornell to take a position at RCA to work on both theoretical and experimental work on secondary emission, pickup tubes, and field emission. He later took part in the development of the theory of thermoelectric refrigeration and image tube aberrations and in demonstrating the mathematical operability of a multistage electrostatic electron multiplier. He also took part in construction of one of the first electron microscopes in the mid-1940s. He remained at RCA until 1972. [ [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/ramberg.xml Ramberg Biography] – American Philosophical Society]

In addition to working at RCA, he was a visiting professor at the University of Munich in 1949 and, he was a Fulbright lecturer a the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt 1960-1961. In addition to co-authoring a number of books, he also translated "Electrodynamik", Arnold Sommerfeld’s third volume in his six-volume "Lectures on Theoretical Physics". [ [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/ramberg.xml Ramberg Biography] – American Philosophical Society]

Awards

*1957 – Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society

*1964 – David Sarnoff Outstanding Team Award in Science from RCA

*1972 – David Sarnoff Award (co-sponsored by RCA and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for his work on electron optics, electron physics, and television.

*1989 – Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize form the Society for Information Display

*Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers

*Fellow of the American Physical Society

elected Literature

*Arnold Sommerfeld and E. Ramberg "Das Drehmoment eines permanenten Magneten im Felde eines permeablen Mediums", "Annalen der Physik" 8 46-54 (1950) as cited in [http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~Sommerfeld/WWW/AS_Bib1.html Sommerfeld Bibliography] – Sommerfeld Project.

Books

*V. K. Zworykin and E. G. Ramberg "Photoelectricity And Its Application" (John Wiley and Sons, 1934)

*E. E. Zworykin, G. A. Morton, E. G. Ramberg, J. Hillier, and A. W. Vance "Electron Optics and the Electron Microscope" (John Wiley & Sons, 1945)

*Arnold Sommerfeld, translated from the German by Edward G. Ramberg "Electrodynamics - Lectures on Theoretical Physics Volume III" (Academic Press, 1952)

*V. K. Zworykin, E. G. Ramberg, and L. E. Flory "Television in Science and Industry" (John Wiley and Sons, 1958)

*A. M. Morell and E. G. Ramberg "Color Television Picture Tubes" (Academic Press, 1974)

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