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Mohamed M. Atalla

1924 - 2009

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Mohamed M. Atalla (Arabic: محمد عطاالله; August 4, 1924 – December 30, 2009) was an Egyptian-American engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was a semiconductor pioneer who made important contributions to modern electronics. He is best known for inventing, along with his colleague Dawon Kahng, the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor) in 1959, which along with Atalla's earlier surface passivation processes, had a significant impact on the development of the electronics industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed M. Atalla has received more than 525,454 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mohamed M. Atalla is the 383rd most popular inventor (down from 368th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 506th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 383 out of 426. Before him are Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Kálmán Tihanyi, Barnes Wallis, and Elmer Ambrose Sperry. After him are Herbert E. Ives, Robert S. Langer, Oleg Losev, John Shepherd-Barron, Mark Rober, and Norman Joseph Woodland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 413. Before him are Joseph Nérette, Muhammad Osman Said, Margaret Truman, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Maria Golubnichaya, and Pierre Adam. After him are Hubert Curien, Maria Sander, Ken Armstrong, Daniel Akaka, Joe Gaetjens, and Ingemar Johansson. Among people deceased in 2009, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 302. Before him are Said Seyam, Teddy Mayer, I. J. Good, Jacques Sylla, Jacques Baratier, and Wayne Allwine. After him are Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Nelson Demarco, Frank Vandenbroucke, Rose Friedman, Lloyd Ruby, and Dana Vávrová.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 538 out of 642. Before him are Pope Julian of Alexandria (200), Karim Rashid (1960), Khadr El-Touni (1915), Pope John I of Alexandria (450), Maximos V Hakim (1908), and Mohamed Ali Rashwan (1956). After him are Mohamed Latif (1909), Alifa Rifaat (1930), Hany Ramzy (1969), Aisha Rateb (1928), Avi Cohen (1956), and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (1951).

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Among INVENTORS In Egypt

Among inventors born in Egypt, Mohamed M. Atalla ranks 3. Before him are Mary the Jewess (100), and Roland Moreno (1945).

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