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He received his Master of Surgery (1952) and Doctor of Philosophy (1957) degrees in theoretical semiconductor physics from Syracuse University.
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Hermann Gummel
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Gummel received his Diplom in physics (1952) from Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. Gummel joined Bell Laboratories in 1956. His doctoral advisor, Melvin Lax, had moved from Syracuse University to Bell the previous year.
At Bell, Gummel made important contributions to the design and simulation of the semiconductor devices used throughout modern electronics.
Among the most important of his contributions are the Gummel–Poon model which made accurate simulation of bipolar transisors possible and which was central to the development of the SPICE program Gummel"s method, used to solve the equations for the detailed behavior of individual bipolar transistors.
And the Gummel plot, used to characterize bipolar transistors. Gummel also created one of the first personal workstations, based on Himachal Pradesh minicomputers and Tektronix terminals and used for Very-large-scale integration design and layout, and MOTIS, the first metal–oxide–semiconductor timing simulator and the basis of "fast SPICE" programs.
In 1985, Gummel was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering for "contributions and leadership in the analysis and computer-aided design of semiconductor devices and circuits.".
In 1994, he was the first recipient of Philosophy Kaufman Award. K. C. J. K.
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