Leon O. Chua

Leon O. Chua

Leon Ong Chua ( /ˈtʃwɑː/; Chinese: 蔡少棠; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is an IEEE Fellow and a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. Dr. Leon O. Chua is recognized for his contributions to nonlinear circuit theory and Cellular neural network (CNN). He is also the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the memristor. Thirty-seven years after he predicted its existence, a working solid-state memristor was created by a team led by R. Stanley Williams at Hewlett Packard. Chaos, CNN, Memristors and Beyond - A Festschrift for Leon Chua, a unique collection of tributes to outstanding discoveries pioneered by Leon Chua in nonlinear circuits, cellular neural networks, and chaos, was published by World Scientific Publishing in Mar 2013.

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