Nationality Danish Name Peder Pedersen Fields Physicist | Role Engineer Awards IEEE Medal of Honor Spouse Maria Lihme (m. 1899) | |
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Institutions College of Advanced Technology Alma mater College of Advanced Technology Notable awards Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Gold Medal (1907)H. C. Orsted Medal (1928)IRE Medal of Honor (1930) Children Kai Oluf Pedersen (b. 1901)Gunnar Pedersen (b. 1905)Inger Margrethe Pedersen (b. 1909) Education Technical University of Denmark |
Peder Oluf Pedersen (19 June 1874 – 30 August 1941) was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology and his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a telegraphone, and the arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter.
Pedersen became a professor of telegraphy, telephony and radio in 1912. He became principal of the College of Advanced Technology (Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt) in 1922, a title he held until his death. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and was a member of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 1915 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
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