Awards & Winners

Gordon Kidd Teal

Date of Birth 10-January-1907
Place of Birth United States of America
(Americas, DVD Region 1, United States, with Territories, Lacks Family Cemetery )
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gordon Teal
Gordon Kidd Teal invented a method of applying the Czochralski method to produce extremely pure germanium single crystals used in making greatly improved transistors. He, together with Morgan Sparks invented a modification of the process that produced the configuration necessary for the fabrication of bipolar junction transistors. He is most remembered for developing the first silicon transistor while at Texas Instruments.

Awards by Gordon Kidd Teal

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1968


IEEE Medal of Honor
(for his contributions to single crystal germanium and silicon technology and the single crystal grown junction transistor.)