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Died 10 July 1991, Moscow, Russia | ||
Semyon Isidorovich Kataev (1904-1991) was a Soviet scientist and inventor in the field of television and radio electronics. Doctor of technical Sciences (1951), Professor (1952), honored worker of science and technology (1968).
Biography
Mother Pelageya Alekseevna, don Cossack. Father Isidor p., Eleonskii the believer, the petty bourgeois. Five years after the birth of the Seed parents left Alinco and moved to the village Sulin (Donbass). At the age of 10 Sam has lost his mother. The years 1921-1922: the young Communist League, resistant studying at the rabfak, and then at the Moscow Higher Technical School at the faculty of electrical engineering.
Student Bauman Kataev comes up with the amplifier at all frequencies, organizes and heads the electrical circle in which he studied Vladimir A. Kotelnikov.
In 1929 receives a diploma as an electrical engineer for radio-specialty and began working in VEI, where he studies under the guidance of his teacher — the famous Soviet Radiophysicist B. A. Vvedensky. In the same year Kataev makes patent application for "Device for the electrical telescope in natural colors" (reproduced sequentially with the cathode ray tube and emerging on the screen in a natural multicolor picture).
September 24, 1931, six weeks earlier than our compatriots who emigrated to the United States, Vladimir K. Zworykin with his iconoscope made by Kataev, is applying for invention and 30 April 1933 receives the Copyright certificate of the USSR No. 29.865.
In 1931 with the help of his tube produces a transmission of the first image.
In 1932, leading the development of vacuum receiving tube with magnetic focusing of the electron beam.
In 1933 refines iconoscope made by Kataev. Patents the transfer of "electronic image" with conductive photocathode on dielectric (copyright certificate dated September 30, 1933 with priority from February 20, 1932).
In 1936 for a few months traveling in the U.S. for the exchange of experience, where he met with Zvorykina. Gives him his just published book "Cathode-ray TV tubes" (M., Svyazist, 1936).
In 1940, edited by Kataev published the fundamental work "Fundamentals of television".
In 1944, with a group of specialists offers world's first standard television broadcasting on 625 lines.
In 1949 proposes to use for TV broadcasting the moon as a passive repeater.
In 1957 offers be used for TV transmission over large distances satellites.
Until 1987 he worked at the Department of television at the Moscow electrotechnical Institute of communications, now the Department of them. S. I. Kataev