Simon Min Sze, or Shi Min (Chinese: 施敏; pinyin: Shī Mǐn; 21 March 1936 – 6 November 2023), was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing the floating-gate MOSFET with Korean electrical engineer Dawon Kahng in 1967.
Simon Min Sze was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from National Taiwan University in 1957, he received a master's degree from the University of Washington in 1960 and a doctorate from Stanford University in 1963.
Sze worked for Bell Labs until 1990, after which he returned to Taiwan and joined the faculty of… More on Wikipedia →