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German
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Dresden
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Technical University of Munich, Technische Universität Berlin
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蛇 Snake
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DROPTHE_ GOSSIP
Heinrich Barkhausen: German physicist (1881-1956).
Born in Bremen (died at age 74).
3 awards including IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award.
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
AWARDS (3)
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IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
WON
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National Prize of East Germany
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honorary doctor of the Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Biography
Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was a German physicist who established an influential research laboratory in Dresden. The phenomenon by which ferromagnetic domains align during magnetization and produce discrete acoustic changes due to rotations of the Weiss domains is named after his observations as the magnetic Barkhausen effect. He is also remembered in the Barkhausen criteria for electrical oscillators.
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Heinrich Barkhausen was born in Bremen.
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