Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbeh | |
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 Statue of Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah in Nabatieh. | |
| Born | August 1894 Nabatieh, Lebanon |
| Died | 31 March 1935 (aged 40) Lewis, United States |
| Occupation(s) | electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. |
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah (Arabic: حسن كامل الصباح; August 16, 1894 – March 31, 1935) was a Lebanese electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in Nabatieh in present-day Lebanon.
Biography
[edit]He studied at the American University of Beirut. In 1916, he was conscripted into the Ottoman army,[1] and worked as a telegraph operator. He later taught mathematics in Damascus, Syria, and at the American University of Beirut.[citation needed]
In 1921, he travelled to the United States and for a short time studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the University of Illinois in 1923. He joined the vacuum tube department of the Engineering Laboratory of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York, in 1923, where he had engaged in mathematical and experimental research, principally on rectifiers and inverters. He received 43 patents covering his work. Among the patents were reported innovations in television transmission.[2][3][4][5]
He died in an automobile accident at Lewis near Elizabethtown, New York. His body was buried at the Nabatieh Cemetery in his hometown Nabatieh, Lebanon.[6]
He was the nephew of linguist and writer Sheikh Ahmad Rida.[citation needed]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Middle East Journal of Anaesthesiology. Anesthesiology Department, American University of Beirut Medical Center. 1985. p. 48.
- ^ *Kasem, Casey (2002). "Arab Americans (cached)" (PDF). Arab American Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 1, 2006.
- ^ "USPTO # 01747988, Transmission of Pictures and Views". United States Patent and Trademark Office. May 25, 1925. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
- ^ "USPTO # 01706185, Transmission of Pictures and Views". United States Patent and Trademark Office. May 27, 1925. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
- ^ "USPTO # 01694982, Transmission of Pictures and Views". United States Patent and Trademark Office. May 27, 1925. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
- ^ "رحلتي إلى ضريح العالِم حسن كامل الصبّاح". An-Nahar (in Arabic). February 18, 2019. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
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- 1894 births
- 1935 deaths
- People from Nabatieh
- Lebanese Shia Muslims
- American Shia Muslims
- American University of Beirut alumni
- Academic staff of the American University of Beirut
- Lebanese emigrants to the United States
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
- Lebanese inventors
- 20th-century inventors
- Ottoman Army personnel