# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-jayant-baliga
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:05.312Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/b-jayant-baliga"
name: "B. Jayant Baliga"
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description: "Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of practical implementations of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)."
tagline: "American electrical engineer from India"
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birthDate: "1948-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump