Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
Karl Ferdinand Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊ̯n] (listen); 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".