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Jean Hoerni

Jean Amédée Hoerni

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2026-07-21

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Also known as
Jean Amédée Hoerni
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Who is this?

Jean Amédée Hoerni (September 26, 1924 – January 12, 1997) was a Swiss-born American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably fabricating and manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.

Career

  1. 1924
    Born
  2. 1966
    Won John Scott Award
  3. 1972
    Won W. Wallace McDowell Award
  4. 1997
    Passed away
  5. 2009
    Won National Inventors Hall of Fame
  6. Member of traitorous eight
  7. Won Fairchild Camera and Instrument Co.

Trivia

  • •Place of birth: Geneva
  • •Citizenship: Switzerland
  • •Known as: physicist, businessperson, mountaineer, engineer
  • •Sport: mountaineering

What happened recently

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4/29/2024

The Invention of the Integrated Circuit : Jean Hoerni’s Patent Notebook

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9/25/2019

Transistor pioneer Jean Hoerni is born, September 26, 1924

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10/4/2004

Chip pioneers Widlar and Hoerni honored

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