Hung-Chang Lin

Hung Chang Lin (Jimmy Lin) (Chinese: 凌宏璋; pinyin: Líng Hóngzhāng; Wade–Giles: Ling Hung-chang; August 8, 1919 – March 5, 2009) was a Chinese-American inventor and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland.

[1] In 1956 he received the Doctor of Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

[1][2] Lin was the first inventor to incorporate p-n-p or complementary integrated circuits.

[1][2] In 1990, Lin was inducted into the A. James Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame at the University of Maryland.

[3] Lin died in Silver Spring, Maryland of lung cancer at the age of 89.

[5] The goal of the endowment was "to provide annual awards to students, staff, and faculty who transform their ideas into innovations through invention and technology commercialization.