Jean Amedee Hoerni was a Swiss-born American engineer.
11 Facts About Jean Hoerni
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Jean Hoerni was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight".
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Jean Hoerni developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably fabricating and manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.
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Jean Hoerni was intrigued, and came up with the concept of planar technology one morning while thinking about Atalla's device.
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Jean Hoerni was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1969 and the McDowell Award in 1972.
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Jean Hoerni died of myelofibrosis on January 12,1997 in Seattle, Washington.
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Jean Hoerni was married to Anne Marie Hoerni and had three children: Annie Blackwell, Susan Killham, and Michael Hoerni.
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An avid mountain climber, Jean Hoerni often visited the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan and was moved by the poverty of the Balti mountain people who lived there.
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Jean Hoerni contributed the lion's share, $30,000, to Greg Mortenson's project to build a school in the remote village of Korphe, and later founded the Central Asia Institute with an endowment of $1 million to continue providing services for them after his death.
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Jean Hoerni named Greg Mortenson as the first Executive Director of the organization, which continues to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The author claimed that Jay Last pointed out that Jean Hoerni had incredible stamina and could hike for hours on little food or water.