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Albert Rose
Albert Rose
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and spent most of his career as a research fellow at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Al's contributions to science and engineering were widely recognized, leading to his election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
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Its sensitivity exceeded that of its predecessors by a hundred times, permitting television pickup under very adverse lighting conditions. Concurrently with the above work, A1 began to examine the fundamental performance limitations of other types of image sensors, including photographic film and the human eye.
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He also served on the organizing committees of many international conferences on subjects such as photoconductivit,v, semiconductors, surfaces, electrophotography, and electronic imaging. Upon his retirement from RCA in 1975, A1 was appointed a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and in later years he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and several other schools.
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. As a strong advocate for the use of solar energy for power generation, Al received the Leo Friend Award for his paper titled "Solar Energy: A Global View, " published in the Chemtechjournal of the American Chemical Society (1981~.
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