# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-wanlass
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:07.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-wanlass"
name: "Frank Wanlass"
slug: "frank-wanlass"
description: "Frank Marion Wanlass was an American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing, along with Chih-Tang Sah, CMOS logic in 1963. CMOS has since become the standard semiconductor device fabrication process for MOSFETs."
tagline: "Computer pioneer (1933–2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-05-17"
deathDate: "2010-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.208064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wanlass"
    title: "Frank Wanlass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانك وانلاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wanlass"
    title: "Frank Wanlass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wanlass"
    title: "Frank Wanlass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانک وانلاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9"
    title: "フランク・ワンラス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wanlass"
    title: "Frank Wanlass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wanlass"
    title: "Frank Wanlass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump