Jay Last

Jay Taylor load ( born October 18, 1929 in Butler, Pennsylvania) is an American physicist.

Life and work

Load studied from 1947 at the University of Rochester. There he made in 1951 a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.) in the field of optics. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), where he in 1956 his Ph.D. in Physics ( Solid State Physics).

After this time, he was by William B. Shockley, recruited for the newly founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in the working group, a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View (Santa Clara County, California). However, this group did not last long. Already in 1957, leaving eight key employees, the research laboratory in a dispute with Shockley. These eight, including load, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore are as Traitorous Eight ( German » The telltale Eight " ) and founded designated after their departure, the company Fairchild Semiconductor. At Fairchild he works as part of the R & D department with the development of the first commercial planar transistor and the first integrated circuits.

In 1961 he left together with the two Traitorous Eight former Jean Hoerni and Sheldon Roberts Fairchild to get together to form a division of Teledyne Semiconductor Amelco. In Teledyne, he worked as Vice President of R & D department.

After leaving Teledyne in the late 1970s, load was involved in various venture capital activities and was a founding member of the Archaeological Conservancy. With the founding of Hillcrest Press in 1982, he got into the publishing business and was, among other things out various art books.

In 1999 load received the Hutchinson Medal of the University of Rochester.

Swell

• Jay T. Last - transcript of an interview by David C. Brock, 2004 In: Chemical Heritage Foundation. . June 21, 2004, accessed on 29 January 2010 (PDF).
• Interview with Jay T. Last by Craig Addison. In: SEMI oral history interview. September 15, 2007, accessed on 29 January 2010 (English ).