Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah ( ar, حسن كامل الصباح; August 16, 1894March 31, 1935) was a Lebanese electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in

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Biography

He studied at the American University of Beirut. In 1916, he was conscripted into the

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, and worked as a telegraph operator. He later taught mathematics in Damascus, Syria, and at the American University of Beirut. In 1921, he travelled to the United States and for a short time studied at the

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before joining the

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in 1923. He joined the vacuum tube department of the Engineering Laboratory of the General Electric Company at

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, 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.* He died in an automobile accident at

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near Elizabeth Town, New York. His body was buried at the Nabtieh Cemetery in his hometown

. He was the nephew of linguist and writer Sheikh

Ahmad Rida Sheikh Ahmad Rida (also transliterated as Ahmad Reda) (1872–1953) ( ar, الشيخ أحمد رضا) was a Lebanese linguist, writer and politician. A key figure of the Arab Renaissance (known as al-Nahda), he compiled the modern monolingual Ar ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabbah, Hassan Kamel 1890s births 1935 deaths People from Nabatieh Lebanese Shia Muslims American Shia Muslims American University of Beirut alumni American University of Beirut faculty Lebanese emigrants to the United States University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Lebanese inventors 20th-century inventors Ottoman Army personnel