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Mohamed M. Atalla

1924 - 2009

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Mohamed M. Atalla (Arabic: محمد عطاالله; August 4, 1924 – December 30, 2009) was an Egyptian-American engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was a semiconductor pioneer who made important contributions to modern electronics. He is best known for inventing, along with his colleague Dawon Kahng, the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor) in 1959, which along with Atalla's earlier surface passivation processes, had a significant impact on the development of the electronics industry. He is also known as the founder of the data security company Atalla Corporation (now Utimaco Atalla), founded in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohamed M. Atalla is the 297th most popular inventor (up from 383rd in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 539th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 297 out of 426. Before him are Petrache Poenaru, Frank Zamboni, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Max Valier, Samuel Morland, and Jacob Perkins. After him are Kálmán Kandó, L. L. Langstroth, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Bill Atkinson, Oleg Losev, and George Graham.

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Among people born in 1924, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 297. Before him are Riccardo Cucciolla, Rune Larsson, Anthony Caro, Ricardo Infante, Tatyana Lioznova, and Attilio Giovannini. After him are Raoul Coutard, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Theodore Bikel, Thomas Berger, Jean-Michel Charlier, and Ken Green. Among people deceased in 2009, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 193. Before him are Elisabeth Söderström, Giacomo Bulgarelli, Michel Leblond, Monica Bleibtreu, Dušan Džamonja, and Olja Ivanjicki. After him are Ruth Ford, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Ivan Gubijan, Jack Kramer, Grigore Vieru, and Janet Jagan.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 464 out of 642. Before him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Mustafa Khalil (1920), Atom Egoyan (1960), Yusuf Idris (1927), Mustafa Ben Halim (1921), and Hassan Shehata (1947). After him are Richard Anthony (1938), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Ali Gomaa (1952), Abdulrahman Fawzi (1909), Taheyya Kariokka (1915), and Konstantinos Tsaldaris (1884).

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Among INVENTORS In Egypt

Among inventors born in Egypt, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 2. Before him are Mary the Jewess (100). After him are Roland Moreno (1945).

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