David Thompson (engineer)

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David A. Thompson (* around 1939 ) is an American electrical engineer.

Thompson studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1962, a master's degree in 1963, and a doctorate in 1966.

Thompson and Lubomyr Romankiw at IBM developed a read head for thin magnetic films (used in hard drives ). In 1981 they received a US patent on it. He was director of the Advanced Magnetic Recording Laboratory at the IBM Almaden Research Center .

He is an IBM Fellow , Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IBM Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering (1988). In 1992 he received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and in 1993 the Inventor of the Year Award from the New York State Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association. In 2012 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame with Romankiw .

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  1. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iist.scu.edu
  2. ↑ Patent US4295173 : Thin film inductive transducer. Published October 13, 1981 , Inventors: Lubomyr Romankiw, David Thompson. ‌
  3. ↑ IBM Inventors Named National Inventors Hall of Fame 2012 Inductees . IBM press release, March 1, 2012, accessed May 2, 2014.
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SURNAME Thompson, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, David A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century