Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld · Science & Medicine
Patented the field-effect transistor concept in the 1920s, decades before Bell Labs
1882, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 1963, Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Austria-Hungary · Germany · United States
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Patented the field-effect transistor concept in the 1920s, decades before Bell Labs
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was a physicist who, in patents filed in the 1920s and 1930s, first described the field-effect transistor principle — controlling current in a semiconductor with an electric field — decades before Bell Labs' 1947 transistor. Born into a Jewish family in Lemberg, he later emigrated to the United States. His prescient patents are now recognized as foundational to modern electronics.
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Patented the field-effect transistor concept in the 1920s, decades before Bell Labs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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