# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawon-kahng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:54:02.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawon-kahng"
name: "Dawon Kahng"
slug: "dawon-kahng"
description: "Dawon Kahng was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics. He is best known for inventing the MOSFET, along with his colleague Mohamed Atalla, in 1959. Kahng and Atalla developed both the PMOS and NMOS processes for MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication. The MOSFET is the most widely used type of transistor, and the basic element in most modern electronic equipment."
tagline: "South Korean engineer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Dawon_Kahng.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
birthDate: "1931-05-04"
deathDate: "1992-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.045036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump