Haroon Ahmed
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- Imperial College London (BSc)
- University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Microelectronics Technology
- Cambridge Computing: The First 75 years[2]
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| Born | 2 March 1936[1] Calcutta, British India (now India) |
| Died | 23 October 2024 (aged 88) Cambridge, England |
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| Thesis | Studies on high-current-density thermionic cathodes (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Oatley[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
Haroon Ahmed, FREng[3] (2 March 1936 – 23 October 2024), was a British-Pakistani scientist who specialised in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He was Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge,[1][2][5][6][7][8][9][10] Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Ahmed was born on 2 March 1936 in Calcutta (then part of British India).[11] His family later emigrated to England in 1954 and settled in London.[12] He was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi, followed by an undergraduate degree at Imperial College London.[1] He went on to obtain his PhD in 1963[13] and his Doctor of Science degrees in 1996 from the University of Cambridge.[14]
Career
Ahmed was appointed a faculty member of the Engineering Department, Cambridge in 1963 and worked there for 20 years before moving to the Physics Department where he was promoted to Professor of Microelectronics and was the Head of the Microelectronics Research Centre until his retirement in 2003. He was a former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow. He was Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[citation needed]
