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Sidney Darlington

1906 - 1997

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Sidney Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Darlington was awarded a B.S. in physics, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1928, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a B.S. in E.E. from MIT in 1929, and a Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Darlington has received more than 66,776 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Darlington is the 341st most popular engineer (down from 311th in 2019), the 10,202nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,074th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sidney Darlington ranks 341 out of 389. Before him are Otmar Szafnauer, John Houbolt, Chuck Peddle, R. J. Mitchell, Tommy Flowers, and Harry Ricardo. After him are Robert Zubrin, Pavel Pavel, Vladimir Barmin, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Viktor Kozin, and Ivan Artobolevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Sidney Darlington ranks 391. Before him are Hans Haas, Romildo Etcheverry, Márton Homonnai, David Smith, Jorge Góngora, and Edward Akufo-Addo. After him are John Betjeman, Vincent Sherman, Anna Dresden-Polak, Pedro Bergés, Klaus Egge, and Daulat Singh Kothari. Among people deceased in 1997, Sidney Darlington ranks 288. Before him are Basri Dirimlili, Jean Louis, Ronald Pope, Guillermo Díaz, Denise Levertov, and Owen Barfield. After him are Guido Vincenzi, Magda Gabor, Mikhail Anikushin, Santiago Benítez, Shirley Clarke, and Ekaterina Kalinchuk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Darlington ranks 10,202 out of 20,380. Before him are Kristen Johnston (1967), Martin Luther King III (1957), Kurt Sutter (1960), Merv Griffin (1925), Bruce Hornsby (1954), and Julee Cruise (1956). After him are John La Farge (1835), Lillian Wald (1867), Aline MacMahon (1899), Edward Brooke (1919), George Ariyoshi (1926), and William C. McCool (1961).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Sidney Darlington ranks 40. Before him are Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack Parsons (1914), John Houbolt (1919), and Chuck Peddle (1937). After him are Robert Zubrin (1952), Tom Dowd (1925), Gordon Bell (1934), Robert R. Gilruth (1913), David S. Johnson (1945), and Beatrice Hicks (1919).

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