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David Shoenberg

1911 - 2004

Born

04/01/1911

St Petersburg, Russia

Died

10/03/2004

Cambridge

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
19/03/1953
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
42
Occupation
Physicist
Relationships
Son of Sir Isaac Shoenberg, distinguished inventor and electrical engineer who installed the first radio-braodcasting network in his native Russia. Moved to Britain in 1914, worked at EMI and directed the team which developed the first high-definition television system, used by the BBC for a pioneering public high-definition telecast from London in 1938; married (1940) Catherine Felicitee Fischmann (d 2003); one son and two daughters survive him