Jay Last
Jay Taylor Last (born October 18, 1929 in Butler , Pennsylvania ) is an American physicist .
life and work
Last studied from 1947 at the University of Rochester . There he obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in optics in 1951 . He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his Ph.D. in physics ( solid state physics ).
After that time, he was hired by William B. Shockley to join the newly formed group at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory , a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California . But this working group did not last long. As early as 1957, eight key employees left the research laboratory in a dispute with Shockley. These eight, including Last, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, are referred to as the Traitorous Eight and founded the company Fairchild Semiconductor after they left . At Fairchild he worked as part of the R&D department on the development of the first commercial planar transistor and the first integrated circuits.
In 1961 he left together with the two Traitorous Eight alumni Jean Hoerni and Sheldon Roberts Fairchild to jointly found Amelco Semiconductor , a division of Teledyne . At Teledyne, he served as vice president of the R&D department.
After leaving Teledyne in the late 1970s, Last was involved in various venture capital activities and was a founding member of the Archaeological Conservancy . With the establishment of Hillcrest Press in 1982 he entered the publishing business and among other things published various art books.
In 1999, Last received the Hutchinson Medal from the University of Rochester.
swell
- Jay T. Last - Transcript of an interview by David C. Brock, 2004. (PDF) In: Chemical Heritage Foundation. June 21, 2004, accessed January 29, 2010 .
- Interview with Jay T. Last by Craig Addison. In: SEMI Oral History Interview. September 15, 2007, accessed January 29, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jay Last: Infrared absorption studies on barium titanate and related crystals . 1956, OCLC 31769891 ( online at DSpace @ MIT [accessed August 10, 2010] Ph.D. Thesis , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1956, with curriculum vitae).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Last, Jay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Last, Jay Taylor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Butler (Pennsylvania) |