Friday, December 12, 2008

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld


Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1881August 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. He was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary (now called Lviv in Ukraine).

He invented the MOSFET (in 1925) and the electrolytic capacitor in the 1920s.

He filed several patents describing the construction and operation of transistors as well as many features of modern transistors.

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