Jean Hoerni

Jean Hoerni

male, deceased (1997)
American, Business Person, TELEDYNE, fairchild semiconductor, Silicon Valley, silicon
Jean Hoerni (September 26, 1924- January 12, 1997) was a silicon transistor pioneer and a member of the Traitorous Eight. He was born in 1924 in...
Eli Yablonovitch

Eli Yablonovitch

male
UC Berkeley, physicist, semiconductor laser, Photonic-bandgap fiber, photonic bandgap materials, quantum well…silicon
Professor Eli Yablonovitch , a pioneer in the fi eld of opto-electronics and photonic bandgap research, is the Northrop Grumman Chair in...
Robert West

Robert West

male, 81 years old
Chemist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, American, silicon
Robert West (b. 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and world-renowned chemist best known for his...
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…silicon
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a...
Gernot Heiser

Gernot Heiser

male, 52 years old
chief technology officer, L4 microkernel, single address space operating system, solar cells, Inter-process communication, microkernel…silicon
Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is professor for operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also leader of the Embedded,...
James Fischer

James Fischer

male, deceased (2004)
cancer death, semiconductor, engineer, from Arkansas, American, University of Arkansas…silicon
James Fischer (December 27 1927-July 3 2004) was an American engineer, who developed high-purity silicon technology for Texas Instruments. Born in...
Yale Patt

Yale Patt

male (Austin, Texas, United States)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Cornell University faculty, Fellow of the IEEE, Stanford University, Master's Degree, doctorate…silicon
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell,...
Alfred Stock

Alfred Stock

male, deceased (1946)
German, Chemist, beryllium, boron, chemical compound, hydride…silicon
Alfred Stock was a German inorganic chemist. Born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and educated at Berlin, he became the director of the Chemistry Department at t...
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

male
from Maine, Radio pioneer, wireless, crystal, semiconductor, silicon
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (February 14, 1877, Portland, Maine - January 8, 1956, Newton, Massachusetts) was a United States radio pioneer. Pickard...
Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer

male, deceased (2002)
electrical engineer, From hull, Member of the Order of the British Empire, mbe, patent, Electronics engineer…silicon
Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (February 25, 1909 -...