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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

1882 - 1963

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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-American physicist and electrical engineer, who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Edgar Lilienfeld has received more than 214,253 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld is the 513th most popular physicist (down from 510th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 440th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 513 out of 717Before him are John G. Trump, Anatole Abragam, Berta Karlik, Christian Mayer, Ira Sprague Bowen, and Macedonio Melloni. After him are August Beer, Leopoldo Nobili, Mildred Dresselhaus, Carlo Rovelli, Robert H. Dicke, and Vladimir Steklov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 151Before him are Paul Anspach, Wilhelm Nusselt, Ernst Weiss, Louis Pergaud, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and James Somerville. After him are Giorgio Abetti, Walter Braunfels, Louis St. Laurent, George Bellows, Oldřich Duras, and Ossip Bernstein. Among people deceased in 1963, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 98Before him are Margaret Murray, Sophus Nielsen, Vsevolod Ivanov, André Maschinot, Richard Oswald, and August Rei. After him are Vissarion Shebalin, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Sabu Dastagir, Lee Wallard, Aleksandr Gauk, and Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 489 out of 1,083Before him are Viktor Chukarin (1921), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888), Ilya Ilf (1897), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), and Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865). After him are Polina Osipenko (1907), Leonid Stadnyk (1969), Nathan Altman (1889), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), and Mykola Pymonenko (1862).

Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 8Before him are Georges Charpak (1924), Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), and Anatoly Alexandrov (1903). After him are Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Gregory Breit (1899), and Vladimir Veksler (1907).