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Jay Rust, a technology pioneer known as the "Father of Silicon Valley", died at the age of 92. At present, only one of the "eight rebels" who participated in the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor is still alive.
Silicon Valley pioneer, entrepreneur, author, art collector and philanthropist Jay Last passed away on November 11, 2021, at the age of 92.
According to the 2013 book The Secrets of Silicon Valley, Rust is listed as one of eight "Fathers of Silicon Valley." His pioneering work has had a profound impact on many aspects of the modern world.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1929, he received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1951. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. After graduation, he worked for a year at The Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory with William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor.
About a year later, due to disagreements with Shockley's allegedly grossly racist views, Rust left the lab and, along with seven colleagues, founded Fairchild Semiconductor, based in San Jose, California.
The eight men were Noyce, Julius Blank, Victor Grianick, Jean Herni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Rust, Gordon Moore, and Sheldon Roberts, who were known as the "Eight Traitors" because of their collective opposition to Shockley.
According to World Business News, these people laid the foundation for the future "specialization, economy and culture of Silicon Valley". Fairchild Semiconductor has also become the "Whampoa Military Academy" in the chip and integrated circuit industry.
Now the world's two major chip giants, Intel and AMD, are both derivatives of Fairchild Semiconductor.
When Fairchild Semiconductor was founded, the industry usually used germanium to produce one transistor at a time. Rust led a research team that developed a mass production process for silicon chips, where both transistors and wires were built on the same silicon chip.
The chips were originally used on military hardware and spacecraft, but were later widely used in civilian computers, smartphones and smartwatches.
At Fairchild, he led the team to develop the first commercial silicon planar transistor. Subsequently, he led the research and development team that produced the first integrated circuit chip.
Rust left Fairchild Semiconductor in 1961 to help establish a semiconductor division in Teledyne, California. Engineers and researchers in the department develop and manufacture complex IC chips for the Teledyne program and for space and military applications. Many circuits were used for the control and data systems of the first lunar space voyage.
Rust eventually became the company's vice president of technology development, managing more than 150 divisions of the company before retiring in 1974.
After retiring, he founded Hillcrest Press, which publishes books on California art styles.
In 1980, he founded the Archaeological Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of archaeological sites in the United States.
To date, the organization has protected more than 450 sites in more than 40 states across the country and now has more than 23,000 members.
When Jay moved to Southern California in 1970, he was drawn to orange box labels sold at the local flea market, and he collected these colorful works of advertising art. Together with Gordon McClelland, he wrote a brief history of these labels, The California Orange Box Label (1984).
In writing this book, he became interested in color lithography techniques for printing labels and investigated the history of color lithography in the United States. Jay's collection includes lithographic prints, color books, theatre and circus posters, advertising posters, sheet music, advertising cards, brochures, game boards, cityscapes, and product labels.
These collections are valuable for studying many aspects of 19th-century American social history. His private collection, which now numbers more than 100,000 pieces, has been donated to the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. From October 2009 to February 2010, a selection of collections was exhibited at the Huntington Hotel.
Jay is a generous philanthropist in the fields of education and the arts, with several scholarships and donations and support for several museums and educational institutions.
He was a collector of historical art, but his collection was aimed at the future and the public, not the private. The general "from... "Favorites" annotation. He believed that he was the caretaker of art rather than the creator.
Rust received numerous awards during his lifetime. In 1999, he received the Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester. In 2005, he received the Morris Ricards Award from the American Ephemera Association for his significant contributions to ephemera research.
In 2007, he won the Newman Book of the Year Award for Color Explosion. In May 2011, he received the California Legend Award from the California Historical Society.
Resources:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-memoriam-jan-2022
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/jay-last-obituary?id=31582731