Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
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Austro-Hungarian physicist
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Why Is Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian-American physicist and electrical engineer, who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor . He was never able to build a working practical semiconducting device based on this concept, additionally, because of his failure to publish articles in learned journals and since high-purity semiconductor materials were not available to him, his FET patent never achieved fame, causing confusion for later inventors.
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