Dudley Allen Buck

Dr.
Dudley Allen Buck
BornApril 25, 1927 (1927-04-25)
San Francisco, California
DiedMay 21, 1959 (1959-05-22) (aged 32)
MonumentsBronze Plaque – Wilmington, Massachusetts, High School
EducationB.S.E.E., Sc.D.
Alma materUniversity of Washington, George Washington University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employer(s)U.S. Navy Communications Supplemental Activities – Washington, Armed Forces Security Agency, National Security Agency, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forCryotron
AwardsBrowder J. Thompson Award

(Dr.) Dudley Allen Buck (1927–1959) was an electrical engineer and inventor of components for high-speed computing devices in the 1950s. He is best known for invention of the cryotron, a superconductive computer component that is operated in liquid helium at a temperature near absolute zero.[1] Other inventions were ferroelectric memory, content-addressable memory, non-destructive sensing of magnetic fields, and writing printed circuits with a beam of electrons.

  1. ^ Brock, David C. (March 19, 2014). "Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer". IEEE Spectrum. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.