Hung-Chang Lin attended Shanghai Jiaotong University, China on a tennis scholarship.
11 Facts About Hung-Chang Lin
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Hung-Chang Lin left China in 1947 to begin his graduate work.
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Hung-Chang Lin was the first inventor to incorporate p-n-p or complementary integrated circuits.
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Hung-Chang Lin later worked for CBS and Westinghouse Electric Corporation, researching and developing electrical engineering practices.
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In 1969, Hung-Chang Lin began teaching at the University of Maryland.
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Hung-Chang Lin worked at the university until his retirement in 1990.
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Hung-Chang Lin worked part-time as an adjunct and visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California, Berkeley, respectively.
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Hung-Chang Lin has published more than 170 professional papers mostly on transistors and integrated circuits.
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In 1990, Lin was inducted into the A James Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame at the University of Maryland.
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Hung-Chang Lin died in Silver Spring, Maryland of lung cancer at the age of 89.
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In 2011, his wife Anchen Hung-Chang Lin donated to the University of Maryland School of Engineering to fund the Jimmy Hung-Chang Lin Endowment for Entrepreneurship.