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Thomas Toliver Goldsmith, Jr. (January 9, 1910 – March 5, 2009) was an American television pioneer, the co-inventor of the first arcade game to use a cathode ray tube, and a professor of physics at Furman University. ==Biography== Goldsmith was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January 9, 1910.〔〔.〕 His parents were Thomas and Charlotte Goldsmith, a real estate broker and concert pianist respectively.〔(1910 US Federal Census )〕 As a teenager, he built crystal radio sets, and continued his interest in engineering as a graduate of Furman University in Greenville. He received his B.S. at Furman University in Greenville in 1931, in physics, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1936 building an oscilloscope for his doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. Frederick Bidell.〔〔〔List of emeriti in (Furman University catalog 2005–2006 ), p. 149.〕 After graduating from Cornell, became director of research for DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey, and (after 1953) vice president;〔.〕 he chaired the Synchronization Panel of the National Television System Committee and also the Radio Manufacturers Association Committee on Cathode-Ray Tubes.〔 He also became the chief engineer for the DuMont Television Network;〔.〕 television station WTTG, formerly in the DuMont network, is named for his initials.〔.〕 In 1966 he left DuMont to become a professor of physics at Furman,〔.〕 and he retired to become an emeritus professor in 1975.〔 Goldsmith died on March 5, 2009 in Lacey, Washington〔.〕 at the age of 99 due to a hip fracture leading to infection. Goldsmith was married to Helen Wilcox (16 November 1910 - 7 June 2009) before 1940.〔(1940 US Federal Census )〕 They raised three children: Judson, Tom III, and Jinny. Helen passed away in her sleep three months after her husband's demise.〔(Helen Wilcox Goldsmith obituary )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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