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Robert H. Dennard
American electrical engineer (–)
Robert Heath Dennard (September 5, – April 23, ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.[1]
Biography
Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas.
He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in and , respectively.
Robert h. dennard biography
He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in His professional career was spent as a researcher for International Business Machines.[1]
Single Transistor DRAM
At the time of the invention, Dennard and his colleagues were fixated on a bulky, costly memory system that used a series of six transistors to store just 1 bit of data.[2]
One night while lying on the couch and pondering a presentation given by his peers earlier in the day, he had a notion: What if he could store a bit of information in a single transistor?
The insight was the catalyst for DRAM — Dennard’s most impo