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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

1882 - 1963

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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was an American electrical engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in 1925. He was never able to build a working practical semiconductor device based on his concept. Additionally, because he didn't publish articles in learned journals and since high-purity semiconductor materials were not available to him, his FET patent never achieved fame, causing confusion for later inventors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld is the 602nd most popular physicist (up from 633rd in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 715th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 602 out of 851. Before him are Vladimir Veksler, Henry Augustus Rowland, Tullio Regge, William Edward Ayrton, Gustav Mie, and Shoichi Sakata. After him are Anatoly Alexandrov, Pierre Weiss, Robert Mills, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, James David Forbes, and Bryce DeWitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 189. Before him are Alexander Rueb, Rik Wouters, Louis Wilkins, Júlio Prestes, Verner Weckman, and Amelita Galli-Curci. After him are Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Rockwell Kent, Elly Ney, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, and Carlo Galetti. Among people deceased in 1963, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 142. Before him are Wladimir Aïtoff, Carl Skottsberg, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, István Somodi, Amelita Galli-Curci, and Augusts Kirhenšteins. After him are Ugo Cerletti, Ulises Saucedo, Josef Gauchel, Arthur Jonath, Donald Piper, and Ivan Brown.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 629 out of 1,365. Before him are Ida Fink (1921), Ross Martin (1920), Alexander Gerschenkron (1904), Sofia Yablonska (1907), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), and Alexander Bezborodko (1747). After him are Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), František Kriegel (1908), Andriy Medvedev (1974), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Levko Lukianenko (1928), and Jacek Kuroń (1934).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 9. Before him are Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Ivan Puluj (1845), and Vladimir Veksler (1907). After him are Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Gregory Breit (1899), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), and Gersh Budker (1918).

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