Jean Amedee Hoerni (September 26, 1924 to January 12, 1997) was a Swiss-born American engineer, silicon transistor pioneer and 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.
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AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 1 AwardW. Wallace McDowell Award 1 Contribution Kind In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikidata: Jean Hoerni
Wikidata Q952816, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Jean Hoerni (Wikipedia)
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Invention of planar process and PNP double diffused transistor
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