Robert H. Dennard

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Robert H. Dennard
Dr. Robert H. Dennard, IBM Fellow, beside his drawing of a DRAM cell (circuit schematic)
Notable awards	IEEE Edison Medal IEEE Medal of Honor Harvey Prize (1990)

Robert Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor.

Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1958. His professional career was spent as a researcher for International Business Machines.

In 1968, he invented dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Dennard was also among the first to recognize the tremendous potential of downsizing MOSFETs. The scaling theory he and his colleagues formulated in 1974 postulated that MOSFETs continue to function as voltage-controlled switches while all key figures of merit such as layout density, operating speed, and energy efficiency improve – provided geometric dimensions, voltages, and doping concentrations are consistently scaled to maintain the same electric field. This property underlies the achievement of Moore's Law and the evolution of microelectronics over the last few decades.

Awards and honors

Kyoto Prize (2013)^[1]
Carnegie Mellon University Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology (2010)
IEEE Medal of Honor (2009)
IEEE Edison Medal (2001)^[2]
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from The Franklin Institute (2007)^[3]
U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2009)
Harvey Prize from Technion Institute in Haifa / Israel (1990)
Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Achievement Award (1989)^[4]
U.S. National Medal of Technology (1988)^[5]
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1982)
appointed IBM Fellow (1979)

References

↑ Taft, Darryl K. (June 24, 2013). "IBM Researcher Wins Kyoto Prize for DRAM Invention". eWeek. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
↑ "Edison Medal", Awards, IEEE, 2001 .
↑ Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, Franklin Institute, 2007 .
↑ "Dennard, Robert H", People, Computer History Museum, retrieved Feb 9, 2012 .
↑ National Medal of Technology recipients, 1988 .

External links

"Robert Dennard", Inventor of the Week (Archive), MIT .
"Robert H Dennard", Legacies (Bio), IEEE .

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2001–present	Robert H. Dennard (2001) Edward E. Hammer (2002) Federico Capasso (2004) Peter Lawrenson (2005) Fawwaz T. Ulaby (2006) Russel D. Dupuis (2007) Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky (2008) Tingye Li (2009) Ray Dolby (2010) Isamu Akasaki (2011) Michael F. Tompsett (2012)

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v t e IEEE Medal of Honor

2001–2025	Herwig Kogelnik (2001) Herbert Kroemer (2002) Nick Holonyak (2003) Tadahiro Sekimoto (2004) James Flanagan (2005) James D. Meindl (2006) Thomas Kailath (2007) Gordon Moore (2008) Robert Dennard (2009) Andrew Viterbi (2010) Morris Chang (2011) John L. Hennessy (2012) Irwin M. Jacobs (2013)

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