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Federico Faggin

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Federico Faggin (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːko fadˈdʒin], Venetian: [faˈdʒiŋ]; born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Federico Faggin is the 380th most popular physicist (up from 424th in 2019), the 1,818th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,235th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Federico Faggin ranks 380 out of 851. Before him are Galileo Ferraris, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. After him are Friedrich Paschen, August Kundt, Abram Ioffe, Vladimir Fock, Edward Witten, and George Johnstone Stoney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Federico Faggin ranks 158. Before him are Adrian Lyne, Luis Alberto Lacalle, Christopher Jones, Beau Bridges, Ole Nydahl, and Nangolo Mbumba. After him are Nora Ephron, Barbet Schroeder, Josef Jelínek, Sergio Oliva, David Crosby, and George Lakoff.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Federico Faggin ranks 1,818 out of 5,161. Before him are Jacopone da Todi (1236), Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588), Giuditta Pasta (1797), Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595), Camillo Ruini (1931), and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona (1542). After him are Lorenzo Baldisseri (1940), Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582), Julius Firmicus Maternus (400), Massimo D'Alema (1949), Roger Borsa (1060), and Luigi Comencini (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Federico Faggin ranks 15. Before him are Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Galileo Ferraris (1847). After him are Bruno Rossi (1905), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Macedonio Melloni (1798), and Augusto Righi (1850).

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