John Bardeen

John Bardeen

male, deceased (1991)
1908-1991, Erdős number 5, National Medal of Science recipient, Nobel laureate in Physics, Semiconductor physicist, American electrical engineer…transistor
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the...
William Shockley

William Shockley

male, deceased (1989)
Semiconductor physicist, American, inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, British, eugenics…transistor
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and...
Akio Morita

Akio Morita

male, deceased (1999)
Sony, Sony co-founder, slang, Aichi Prefecture, entrepreneur, Sonny-boys…transistor
Akio Morita was a co-founder of Sony Corporation.
Masaru Ibuka

Masaru Ibuka

male, deceased (1997)
writer, from Tochigi Prefecture, transistor, waseda university, Japanese, Sony
Masaru Ibuka (井深大 "Ibuka Masaru", April 11, 1908 in Nikkō City, Japan - December 19, 1997 in Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industr...
Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain

male, deceased (1987)
physicist, inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, scientist at Bell Labs, American, University of Minnesota alumni…transistor
Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 - October 13, 1987) was a physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley...
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…drift transistor, transistor
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a...
Slim Goodbuzz

Slim Goodbuzz

male
Chris Monroe, Slim Goodbody, Minnesota writer, Humorist, American, transistor
Slim Goodbuzz (born 1970) is an American writer known primarily for his reviews of drinking establishments in newspapers and magazines. He is also...
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

male, deceased (1963)
lviv, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Austrian, Humboldt University of Berlin, Jewish person, austria-hungary…transistor
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary (now called Lviv in Ukraine). From 1900 to 1904 he studied at the...
Edouard Branly

Edouard Branly

male, deceased (1940)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, seine, Ecole Normale Superieure, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, French, physics…transistor
Eugène Édouard Désiré Branly was a French inventor and physicist. He was the Physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is prim...

Russell Ohl

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