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Sidney Darlington

1906 - 1997

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Sidney Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, invented chirp radar, and contributed to the designs of bombsights and gun and rocket guidance. Darlington was awarded a B.S. in physics, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1928, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a B.S. in E.E. from MIT in 1929, and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Darlington is the 317th most popular engineer (up from 341st in 2019), the 8,508th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,206th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sidney Darlington ranks 317 out of 389. Before him are Peter Schreyer, K. Eric Drexler, Ralph Bagnold, Marina Popovich, Geoffrey de Havilland, and Peter Chen. After him are Charles Combes, Preston Tucker, Yuri Artsutanov, Gordon Bell, Arthur E. Kennelly, and Pavel Solovyov.

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Among people born in 1906, Sidney Darlington ranks 340. Before him are Sara Ashurbeyli, Paul Winter, Benjamin Mazar, Franco Comotti, Jean Amrouche, and William Feller. After him are Milorad Arsenijević, Erwin Geschonneck, Abdus Sattar, Alberto Soria, Kang Kyeong-ae, and Peter Donlon. Among people deceased in 1997, Sidney Darlington ranks 251. Before him are Abdelkader Ben Bouali, Aleksandr Ivanov, Ferenc Sipos, Marshall Applewhite, Julio Musimessi, and Ben Hogan. After him are Jacques Pollet, Ngiratkel Etpison, Georgi Yumatov, K. Shivaram Karanth, Joanna Moore, and Ted Gärdestad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Darlington ranks 8,510 out of 20,380. Before him are Grace Lee Whitney (1930), Nicholas Gonzalez (1976), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Bill Monroe (1911), and Ben Hogan (1912). After him are Giorgos Kaminis (1954), Iris Marion Young (1949), Ray Barbuti (1905), Rose O'Neill (1874), Charles R. Knight (1874), and Michaela Conlin (1978).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Sidney Darlington ranks 35. Before him are Burt Rutan (1943), Frederick Terman (1900), Alan Shugart (1930), Kenneth Nichols (1907), Robert H. Dennard (1932), and K. Eric Drexler (1955). After him are Preston Tucker (1903), Gordon Bell (1934), Beatrice Hicks (1919), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), T. Keith Glennan (1905), and Chuck Peddle (1937).

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