- Sidney Darlington
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name = Sidney Darlington
birth_date = birth date|1906|7|18
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death_date = death date and age|1997|10|31|1906|7|18
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residence =United States
nationality = American
field =Electrical engineering
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awards =IEEE Medal of Honor Sidney Darlington (
July 18 ,1906 -Exeter, New Hampshire ,October 31 ,1997 ) was an electrical engineer, inventor of atransistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar,bombsight s, and gun and rocketguidance .Darlington joined
Bell Labs in 1929, where his first supervisor wasHendrik Bode , and he remained there until he retired in 1971.In 1945, he was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom , the United States' highest civilian honor, for his contributions during World War II. He was an elected member of theNational Academy of Engineering , which cited his contributions to electrical network theory, radar, and guidance systems. In 1975, he receivedIEEE 'sEdison Medal 'For basic contributions tonetwork theory and for important inventions in radar systems and electronic circuits' and theIEEE Medal of Honor in 1981 'For fundamental contributions to filtering and signal processing leading to chirp radar.'He died at his home in
Exeter, New Hampshire , USA, at the age of 91.Patents
*US patent|1991195 — Wave Transmission Network
*US patent|2663806 — Semiconductor signal translating devices. (ed., "Darlington Transistor")
*US patent|2438112 — Bombsight Computer
*US patent|2658675 — Fire Control Computer
*US patent|2678997 — Pulse Transmission (chirp)
*US patent|3008668 — Rocket Guidance
*US patent|3265973 — Two-Port Network Synthesis
*US patent|3618095 — Chirp Pulse EqualizerExternal links
* [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/darlington.html IEEE Biography]
* [http://andros.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hodges/DarlingtonCircuit.pdf Darlington’s Contributions to Transistor Circuit Design]
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