George Clifford Sziklai

George Clifford Sziklai ( born July 9, 1909 in Budapest, Hungary, † 9 September 1998 in Los Altos Hills, California ) was an electronics engineer with work on electronic circuit technology. According to him, the Sziklai pair is named which was developed by him in 1956. The Sziklai pair represents a form of amplifier is composed of two bipolar transistors, which in integrated circuits (ICs ) is used.

George Clifford Sziklai studied at the Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary and at the Technical University of Munich before he emigrated in 1930 to New York. He worked at several electronics companies at the time as the Radio Corporation of America (RCA ) and the Westinghouse Electric before 1967 Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory ( LPARL ), a research laboratory of Lockheed in Palo Alto, California went.

Apart from the electronic circuit technology, he worked on various technical topics such as image processing and developed the image orthicon pickup tube which was used in early color television cameras for the first color photographs.