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Published on Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009
Fifteen scientists will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May in ceremonies in California.
The Akron-based nonprofit organization announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the names of 10 living and five deceased inventors to be inducted in ceremonies May 2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
The ceremony will return to Akron in 2010 after the $13.28 million National Inventors Hall of Fame School . . . Center for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Learning opens in January 2010.
The new middle school is a collaboration of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, the Akron school district, the city, the University of Akron, the Greater Akron Chamber and Akron Tomorrow.
The school will initially be for fifth- and sixth-graders, but ultimately will become a fifth-through-eighth-grade school.
There is a theme to this year's class of inductees, said hall of fame spokeswoman Rini Paiva.
''We're going to be celebrating inventors who have made many of our modern electronic technologies possible,'' she said.
''Back in 1959, two key patents were filed for the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce, then of Fairchild Semiconductor and later a co-founder of Intel. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of their work, we're honoring inventors whose technologies are related to integrated-circuit technology or enabled by it.''
The electronics ''we use every day at home and at work exist because of the advances made by pioneers in the industry,'' she said.
''We've actually already recognized some inductees in the hall of fame for their achievements in this area. During Intel's early years, Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin invented the microprocessor, which is found in virtually every electronic device in the modern world. Robert Dennard invented dynamic random access memory, which is commonly used in computers. George Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device, the chip that enables all of our digital imaging, like in cell phones and digital cameras.''
This year's class includes:
Living
Martin M. (John) Atalla (born 1924), MOS transistor.
Atalla is one of the inventors at Bell Labs, along with Dawon Kahng, of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), the most widely used type of integrated circuit. He received his undergraduate degree from Cairo University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue University. Known as the father of the PIN, he also developed the data security system used in most automated banking machines, and devised the PIN method of secure identification. He is chairman and chief executive of TriStrata Corp.
Alfred Y. Cho (born 1937), Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
Cho, who was born in Beijing, China, achieved molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) at Bell Labs, a process in which materials are layered atop one another with great precision to form devices like transistors, light-emitting diodes and lasers. The switches in cell phones are made using MBE, as are most of the lasers used in CD/DVD players and drives. He received his undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois. He received the 2005 U.S. National Medal of Technology, the highest honor awarded by the president for technological innovation.
Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky (born 1939), EPROM.
Frohman-Bentchkowsky worked for Intel when he devised the electrically programmable read-only memory chip, or EPROM, which could be erased by exposing it to ultraviolet light, then have new data written onto it. Modern electronic devices like cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and computers all rely on a form of this memory to store information. He was born in the Netherlands, and received his bachelor's from Technion University in Israel, and his master's and doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
George Heilmeier (born 1936), liquid crystal display.
Heilmeier invented the first liquid crystal displays at RCA Laboratories. He went on to serve as a White House Fellow, special assistant to the secretary of defense, and director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was also chief technical officer for Texas Instruments. He is now chairman emeritus of Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bellcore, which provides communications software and professional services. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and master's and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Larry Hornbeck (born 1943), digital micromirror device (DMD).
Hornbeck, of Texas Instruments, who grew up in Portland, Ore., received his undergraduate degree from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1974. He holds a number of patents that form the basis for DMD technology, an array of up to 2 million hinged microscopic aluminum mirrors on a silicon chip. Under digital control, the tiny mirrors reflect light, painting an image on a screen. His technology is found in many products.
John Macdougall (born 1940) and Ken Manchester (born 1925), ion implantation.
Macdougall and Manchester worked together at Sprague Electronics to develop a commercial method of ion implantation, a process in which silicon is hit with ionized atoms to change the electrical conductivity of certain areas, called ''doping.'' Ion implantation is the dominant doping method in the production of integrated circuits. Macdougall received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Brunswick and his Ph.D. from McMaster University and has been employed by Sprague Electric and its successor company, Allegro Microsystems, his entire career. Manchester received his doctorate from Stanford University and retired from Sprague Electric. He was a consultant for Allegro Microsystems until 1996.
Carver Mead (born 1934),VLSI method for designing chips.
Mead, a native of Bakersfield, Calif., and professor emeritus of California Institute of Technology, is an inventor, chip designer, entrepreneur and physicist. He received his undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from California Institute of Technology. He helped develop standards and tools that allowed tens of thousands of transistors to be packaged on a single silicon chip, known as very large-scale integration (VLSI). He has founded more than 20 companies, including Synaptics and Impinj.
Gordon Moore (born 1929), semiconductor production.
While co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, Moore established standards for Silicon Valley's chip manufacturing methods. His work set the model of the computer industry researcher-entrepreneur and helped Intel become a world-leading chip maker. He is chairman emeritus of Intel and principal sponsor of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. The native of San Francisco received the National Medal of Technology in 1990 and the Medal of Freedom in 2002.
Frank Wanlass (born 1933), complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS).
Wanlass invented the complementary metal oxide semiconductor, the technology used in most modern microchips. Because of their low power requirement, CMOS chips are well-suited to battery-powered devices. The digital watch was one of the first products to make use of CMOS technology.
Deceased
Ross Freeman (1948-1989), field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Freeman invented the FPGA, a computer chip that can be programmed repeatedly, and changed in the way that it functions. FPGAs are used in rapidly changing industries, like local-area networking and cell-phone networks. Freeman, who once worked at Zilog, received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his master's and doctorate from the University of Illinois. He was a co-founder of Xilinx, which makes FPGA chips used in wired and wireless communication, the defense industry, and biomedical, industrial and automotive equipment.
Jean Hoerni (1924-1997), planar process.
A co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and one of the Fairchild Eight, Hoerni, who was born in Switzerland, invented the planar manufacturing process, which is the system used to make modern integrated circuits. He was a consultant to semiconductor firms around the world and founded Teledyne's Almeco division, Intersil, and Telmos. He went to Cambridge for his undergraduate degree and received two Ph.D.s in physics, one from Cambridge and one from the University of Geneva.
Dawon Kahng (1931-1992), MOS transistor.
Dawon Kahng, who was born in South Korea, was an inventor, with John Atalla, of the first practical field-effect transistor, a device that controls electronic signals by switching them on or off or amplifying them. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Ohio State University. Today, the MOSFET is the most widely used type of integrated circuit in the computer and electronics industries. After working at Bell Labs, he founded the NEC Research Institute, which conducts basic science research in computing and communications.
Gordon Teal (1907-2003), semiconductors.
Teal, who grew up in Texas, created the first functioning silicon transistor. By the time he announced his working silicon transistors at a 1954 meeting, Texas Instruments had already begun production, which propelled the silicon semiconductor industry to success. Teal was the first director of the National Bureau of Standards materials research division. He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his Ph.D. from Brown University.
Robert Widlar (1937-1991), linear integrated circuits.
Widlar was a Cleveland native who graduated from St. Ignatius High School and the University of Colorado. He designed the first commercially successful analog integrated circuit. These circuits are used to process and amplify signals like sound and radio waves, and they are used in the automotive industry and in communications and consumer electronics devices. Widlar saw great success at National Semiconductor and was a co-founder of Linear Technology Corp.
Fifteen scientists will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May in ceremonies in California.
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Tallmadge, OH
Posted 12:49 PM, 02/11/2009
What Hall of Fame are they talking about? it no longer exists in Akron. What a waste of tp dollars it was.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:53 PM, 02/11/2009
They should nominate Mayor Plusquellic, for inventing record numbers of schemes that have plunged this town into unfathomable debt.
Posted 08:58 AM, 02/16/2009
??? I thought they shut the Hall of Fame down along time ago per the ABJ??? Is it still open?
