Albert Wallace Hull – USA

Albert Wallace Hall pictured with Albert Einstein in 1921 RCA Radiation Station

1921 Albert Wallace Hull invented the magnetron as a powerful transmission tube.

• Albert Wallace Hull (1880–1966) is an American physicist and electrical engineer.
• He received his doctorate in physics from Yale in 1909 and taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute before leaving in 1913 to join the General Electric Research Laboratory. He was made assistant director in 1928 and retired in 1950. He did pioneering work in industrial electronics with electron tubes, and is credited with inventing the magnetron and thyratron tubes. He is credited with a total of 94 patents.