Jay T. Last is a silicon pioneer and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley. He was born in 1929 in Butler, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor's degree in Optics at the University of Rochester in 1951 and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1956. He worked at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, and left the company along with the rest of the Traitorous Eight to form the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation. Wikipedia
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Jay Last was one of my closest friends in college, one of several special friends I made while living in the dorms at the University of Rochester. Living and studying with these guys was great for my self-development, and I still feel close to all of the www.infionline.net/~rwhend/people.html
