frederik

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Alexanderson Ernst Frederik Werner de Klerk Frederik Willem Frederik Hendrik Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel Olav Alexander Edward Christian Frederik Willem Frederik George Lodewijk Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk Willem Frederik

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Frederik Willem de Klerk
born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af. President of South Africa (1989-94). He brought the apartheid system to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule. Replacing P.W. Botha as leader of the National Party and president, de Klerk quickly moved to release all important political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, and to lift the ban on the African National Congress. He and Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. Following the country's first universal suffrage elections in 1994, Mandela became president and de Klerk was appointed second deputy president. He retired from politics in 1997
Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson
born Jan. 25, 1878, Uppsala, Swed. died May 14, 1975, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S. Swedish-born U.S. electrical engineer and television pioneer. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1901 and spent most of the next five decades at General Electric; from 1952 he worked for RCA. He developed a high-frequency alternator that was capable of producing continuous radio waves, revolutionizing radio communication. His completed alternator (1906) greatly improved transoceanic communication and firmly established the use of wireless devices in shipping and warfare. He also developed a sophisticated control system (1916) used to automate intricate manufacturing processes and operate antiaircraft guns. He was awarded his 321st patent in 1955 for the colour TV receiver he developed for RCA