Erwin Otto Marx Explained

Erwin Otto Marx
Birth Date:	1893 1, df=y
Birth Place:	Mautitz, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire^[1]
Death Place:	Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Nationality:	German
Known For:	Inventor of the Marx generator
Occupation:	Electrical engineer

Erwin Otto Marx (1893–1980) was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses.

He worked as an engineering scientist in Braunschweig from 1918 to 1950 where he performed research and development for electrical power distribution via long distances.

Prizes

The Erwin Marx Award is awarded for contributions by individual engineers to pulsed power technology.^[2] It was awarded for the first time in 1981 at the 3rd IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference.^[3]

The VDE local chapter Braunschweig awards an annual "Erwin-Marx-Prize" to successful graduates from the Braunschweig University of Technology and/or the Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ingrid. Ahrens. Marx, Erwin . Neue Deutsche Biographie. 1990. 9 October 2015. German.
2. Web site: The Erwin Marx Award. University of New Mexico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2010-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707080058/http://www.ece.unm.edu/ppst/marx.html. 2010-07-07. dead.
3. Web site: Pulsed Power Conference History . Sandia National Laboratories . 2010-02-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023055447/http://www.sandia.gov/ppc2005/history.html . 2013-10-23.