Pan Wen-Yuan was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer.
10 Facts About Pan Wen-Yuan
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Pan Wen-Yuan was a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Pan Wen-Yuan was born on July 15,1912, in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China.
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Pan Wen-Yuan's doctoral dissertation was "A Complete Analysis of the Resistance Coupled Amplifier Using Pentode Tubes", supervised by Frederick Terman.
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Pan Wen-Yuan was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1958, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1961.
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On February 7,1974, Pan Wen-Yuan attended a breakfast meeting at the Xiaoxinxin Soy Milk Shop in Taipei with six Taiwanese government officials, including Minister of Economic Affairs Sun Yun-suan and Minister of Transport Kao Yu-shu, as well as Fei Hua and Fang Hsien-chi.
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Pan Wen-Yuan helped Minister Sun identify and recruit Chinese engineers in the US to establish the Electronics Research and Service Organization under Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute.
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Pan Wen-Yuan persuaded RCA, which had decided to exit the semiconductor industry, to sell its obsolete seven-micron CMOS technology to ITRI.
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Pan Wen-Yuan died in the United States on January 3,1995, aged 82.
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Pan Wen-Yuan is honored as the "father" of Taiwan's IC industry despite having never studied, settled, or worked for pay in Taiwan.