The Alfred Hermann Sommer collection, 1947-1993.

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The Alfred Hermann Sommer collection, 1947-1993.

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The collection consists of eleven patents awared to Dr. Sommer between 1956 and 1975, along with copies of his two primary publications, "Photoelectric cells" (1947) and "Photoemissive materials" (1968 & 1980), his article "The origin of photoelectronics in the silver-oxygen-cesium photocathode," from the December 1967 issued of "RCA Review," and the proceedings of a 1993 symposium on photodetectors and power meters.

0.45 linear ft.

Hagley Museum & Library

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Radio corporation of America

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Sommer, A. H. (Alfred Hermann), 1909-2003

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Alfred Hermann Sommer was born on November 19, 1909 in Frankfurt, Germany and received a Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of Berlin in 1934. By then, he knew he would have to flee the Nazi regime and took a job in which, by working overtime, he could develop laboratory techniques of interest to English employers. Sommer escaped to London in 1935 and worked with John Logie Baird in his efforts to develop color television and on photoemissive materials for EMI. Dr. ...