Peder Oluf Pedersen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish engineer and physicist
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About Peder Oluf Pedersen
- 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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