Léon Theremin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Theremin

Russian inventor

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1896

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1993

Profession: scientist, engineer, physicist, inventor, musician, cellist

Nationality: United States, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Russian: ??? ????????? ????é?, IPA: ['l?ef s??r'g?ej?v??t? t?r'm?en]; 28 August [O.S.
15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), or Léon Theremin in the United States, was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.
He also devised the interlace technique for improving the quality of a video signal, still widely used in video and television technology.
His listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States Ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to eavesdrop on secret conversations.