George Clifford Sziklai (July 9, 1909 in Budapest, Hungary - September 9, 1998 in Los Altos, California) was a renowned electronics engineer, who among many other contributions to radio and TV electronics invented the transistor configuration named after him, the Sziklai pair. Educated at the University of Budapest and the Technical Institute of Munich, Sziklai emigrated to New York in 1930. Wikipedia
George Clifford Sziklai held 160 patents in electronics, including a design of the first AC-DC battery-powered portable radio. latc.com/1998/09/21/special_sect/people3.html
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