Fernand Holweck
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Fernand Holweck (1890, Paris - 1941, Paris) was a French physicist.
Holweck studied at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris. He made important contributions in the fields of vacuum technology, electromagnetic radiation and gravitation. In the 1920s, Holweck built the first prototype of a television set. He was the director of the Curie Laboratory of the Radium Institute in Paris. He was tortured and killed by the Gestapo during the occupation of France 1940-44.
An award, the Holweck Medal & Prize, was instituted in 1945 jointly by the French Physical Society and the Institute of Physics as a memorial to Holweck.
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