Hung Chang Lin (Jimmy Lin) (; August 8, 1919 – March 5, 2009) was a Chinese-American inventor and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland.
Early life and education
Lin was born in Shanghai, China. He attended Shanghai Jiaotong University, China on a tennis scholarship. In 1948 he received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
In 1969, Lin began teaching at the University of Maryland. which has been used in many commercial audio amplifiers. Another of his inventions is the lateral transistor which is used in linear integrated circuits and TTL digital integrated circuits. He also invented the wireless microphone.
He has published more than 170 professional papers mostly on transistors and integrated circuits. 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."