Dov Frohman

Dov Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and former Intel Corporation vice president, born March 28, 1939, in Amsterdam, who invented the erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) in 1970 while working at Intel, creating the first non-volatile, erasable and reprogrammable semiconductor memory. He established Intel's first international chip design center in Haifa, Israel, in 1974, and became general manager of Intel Israel in 1985, overseeing its growth into a major research and development hub before retiring from Intel in 2001. Frohman earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1963, then a master's degree in 1965 and a PhD from UC Berkeley. His honors include the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award in 1982, the Israel Prize for exact sciences in 1991, the IEEE Edison Medal in 2008, and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.