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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). He was never able to build a working practical semiconducting device based on this concept. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Edgar Lilienfeld has received more than 236,609 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld is the 633rd most popular physicist (down from 513th in 2019), the 715th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 486th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 633 out of 851. Before him are Antonius van den Broek, Leo Kadanoff, Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Kittel, and Barys Kit. After him are Francis Hauksbee, Gerard K. O'Neill, Alfred Landé, Tullio Regge, Victor J. Stenger, and Harriet Brooks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 196. Before him are Alexander Rueb, Rik Wouters, Willem Elsschot, Hernando Siles Reyes, Seán T. O'Kelly, and Elly Ney. After him are Verner Weckman, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Walter Braunfels, Harold D. Babcock, Percy Grainger, and Aristarkh Lentulov. Among people deceased in 1963, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 149. Before him are Mehdi Frashëri, Josef Gauchel, Cilly Aussem, Benjamin Jones, Adrien Rommel, and Charles Winslow. After him are Jens Hundseid, August Jakobson, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Carl Skottsberg, Henri Masson, and Joseph Sweeney.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 715 out of 1,365. Before him are Yevhen Stankovych (1942), Mykhailo Podolyak (1972), Alfred Eisenbeisser (1908), Igor Krutoy (1954), Emanuel Ax (1949), and Margarita Aliger (1915). After him are Stanisław Mazur (1905), Hermann Kesten (1900), Volodymyr Lytvyn (1956), Grigory Shajn (1892), Kateryna Yushchenko (1919), and Mykola Zerov (1890).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld ranks 11. Before him are Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), and Vladimir Veksler (1907). After him are Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Gregory Breit (1899), and Gersh Budker (1918).

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