Background
Shoenberg was born in Pinsk, Imperial Russia (now Belarus) and studied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and electricity in Saint St. Petersburg.
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Career
In 1905 Shoenberg was employed to design and install the earliest wireless stations in Russia. However, in 1914, Shoenberg decided to emigrate to London and join the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company. Shoenberg was later general manager of the Columbia Graphaphone Company.
He remained with the company through the merger that became Electric and Music Industries in the early 1930s making significant contributions to the development of television
He was Alan Blumlein"s supervisor at the central research labs at Hayes during the time Blumlein invented stereo recording. Shoenberg was knighted in 1962.
Schoenberg was portrayed by Leon Lissek in the 1986 television movie "The Fools on the Hill" by Jack Rosenthal which dramatised the events around the first broadcasts by the British Broadcasting Corporation from Alexandra Palace in 1936.
