Fritz Fischer (physicist)

Fritz Fischer (physicist)

Fritz Fischer (born 9th February 1898 at Signau BE, Switzerland; died 28th December 1947 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a technical physicist and inventor. He was married to Maud Schätti.

Fritz Fischer studied electroengineering at the ETH Zurich from 1917 till 1921. Working at the "Telephonwerke Albisrieden" he improved the transmission quality of speech, wherupon he was called to the central lab of the mother company Siemens & Halske in Berlin. There he built the first remotely controlled ships and airplanes and investigated the physical properties of colour film.

1932 he received a call to the ETH Zurich, where he founded the Institute for technical physics. He developed the Eidophor technique of transmitting television pictures the size of cinema screens.

Professor Fritz Fischer was one of the important technical scientists of his day.


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