Geoffrey Charles Gaut CBE (12 October 1909 – 18 August 1992) was a scientist in Britain's early semiconductor industry.
He joined Plessey in 1934,[1] as the second graduate employee at the company, earning £6 a week, and rose to Chief Chemist.
When Allen Clark, of Plessey, was told of this, he coerced the RAF to stop Gaut's commission.
[1] Britain's first research into solid-state silicon devices was begun in 1952, and in the late 1960s Gunn diodes were developed.
He was a board member of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) for many years from April 1966.