He is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 1979 he was
elected President of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical society with a
worldwide membership of over 300,000. In 2000 he was awarded the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal for outstanding achievements and contributions to the
profession. In 2003, on its 50th anniversary, he was honored as
one of the founding pioneers of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits
Conference.
This Oral History was taken in
January 2005 and highlights Jerry’s pioneering work on unijunction
transistor technology at General Electric’s Electronics Laboratory in the
early 1950s.
When you started with GE
Electronics Lab in 1952, was the unijunction transistor applications work
your first assignment?
No. When I joined GE in 1952,
our particular group under Dick Shea was working under a tri-service
contract, sponsored jointly by the Air Force, the Army Signal Corps and the
Navy. The basic purpose of that
contract was, amazingly, to advance the state of the art of transistors.
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