Jerry Sanders

Jerry Sanders

male, 73 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, Irish-American, Businessman, AMD, Douglas Aircraft Company, last rites…semiconductor, fairchild semiconductor
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936), and best known as "Jerry," was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was...
Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer

male, 81 years old
Georg August University of Göttingen, university of colorado at boulder, University of California, Santa Barbara faculty, University of Colorado faculty, Engineering educator, drift-field transistor…Semiconductor physicist, semiconductor
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a...
Sherman Fairchild

Sherman Fairchild

male, deceased (1971)
from New York, United States aerospace engineer, Aviation inventor, philanthropist, aviator, Business person in aviation…semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
Sherman Fairchild matriculated at Harvard University in 1915 where, in his freshman year, he invented the flash camera. He also contracted...
Richard Friend

Richard Friend

male
field effect transistor, FRS, IEE, Cambridge Display Technology, Faraday Medal, Queen's Birthday Honours List…semiconductor
Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS is Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge with a world-renowned reputation for his research into...
Andy Kessler

Andy Kessler

male
The New York Times, investor, Velocity Capital Management, Industry analyst, land before time, Wikipedia…semiconductor
Andy Kessler (born 1958) is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to "The Wall Street Journal",...

R. A. Stradling

male, deceased (2002)
physicist, Academic of Imperial College London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, christ church, imperial college london, laser…semiconductor, Semiconductor physicist, narrow gap semiconductor
Professor Robert Anthony (Tony) Stradling (1937-2002), was a notable English semiconductor physicist, latterly professor of physics at Imperial...

Russell Ohl

male
resistance, PN junction, Walter Brattain, germanium, Nobel Prize for Physics, diode…semiconductor
Russell Ohl is generally recognized for patenting the modern solar cell (US2402662, "Light sensitive device"). Ohl was a notable semiconductor...
Wen Chi Chen

Wen Chi Chen

male
intel, chipset, VIA Technologies, National Taiwan University, Business Person, Logic Design…semiconductor
Wen Chi Chen has been President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc. since 1992, and has overseen its transition from chipset designer to a leading...

Stanford R. Ovshinsky

male, 86 years old
From Akron, Ohio, American, inventor, fax machine, lithuanian, lcd…semiconductor
Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1923-) is a self-taught Jewish American-Lithuanian engineer, inventor, and physicist. He has invented amorphous...
Victor Grinich

Victor Grinich

male, deceased (2000)
Stanford University, University of Washington, engineer, World War II, navy, UC Berkeley…semiconductor, fairchild semiconductor, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Victor Grinich was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley. His parents were...