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Gerald B. (Jerry) Herzog has
been active in semiconductor development since the early 1950s, when he
began working with samples of the first transistors developed at RCA. After completing his BSEE (1950) and MSEE (1951) degrees at the
University of Minnesota, he joined the RCA Research Laboratories in
Princeton, NJ. He held a number of
research and leadership positions with RCA, rising to the level of Vice
President of the Solid State Technology Centers in 1974. During his career
at RCA Jerry presented and published many technical papers on advanced
semiconductor device applications and was granted 23 U.S. patents. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa
Nu, Fellow of the IEEE and a past Chairman of the ISSCC. He received two RCA Achievement Awards,
two David Sarnoff Outstanding Team Awards and the University of Minnesota
Outstanding Achievement Award in 1972.
Since retiring from RCA in 1979, Jerry migrated to California, where
he currently resides, working at Texas Instruments and Performance
Semiconductor along the way.
Jerry has made significant
contributions across a broad range of semiconductor areas, including early
transistor application development, ultra-high speed logic including tunnel
diodes, and Large Scale Integration, including complementary MOS and
silicon-on-sapphire devices. This
Oral History details his work on early transistor applications and CMOS
LSI.
Herzog
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