Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah

Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
Born	August 1894 (1894) Nabatieh, Lebanon
Died	31 March 1935(1935-03-31) (aged 40) Lewis, United States
Occupation	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, Lebanon.

Biography[]

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.

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 Elizabeth Town, New York. He was the nephew of linguist and writer Sheikh Ahmad Rida.

Statue of Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah in Nabatieh, Lebenan.

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