[1][2] According to the New York Times, Albert Rose is credited as the father of the orthicon television camera tube, which was developed during World War II, and then later was an integral part of all early television broadcasts.

He joined RCA, where was active in the development of TV camera tubes.

He wrote a book Concepts in photoconductivity and allied problems, which was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1963.

He found that humans could distinguish small objects in noisy images at near 100% accuracy if the object brightness differed from the background by at least 5 times the noise standard deviation; this signal-to-noise relationship is known as the Rose criterion.

[3][4] Rose also originated the concept of detective quantum efficiency, today widely used in optical and X-ray imaging.