Walter H. Schottky
Walter H. Schottky (
July 23, 
1886, 
Zürich, 
Switzerland - 
March 4, 
1976, Pretzfeld, 
West Germany) was a 
German physicist who invented the 
screen-grid vacuum tube in 
1915 and the 
tetrode in 
1919 while working at 
Siemens. In 
1938, Schottky formulated a theory predicting the 
Schottky effect, now used in Schottky diodes.
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