Dr. Dudley Allen Buck | |
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| Born | April 25, 1927 San Francisco, California |
| Died | May 21, 1959 (aged 32) |
| Monuments | Bronze Plaque – Wilmington, Massachusetts, High School |
| Education | B.S.E.E., Sc.D. |
| Alma mater | University 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 for | Cryotron |
| Awards | Browder 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.