Haroon Ahmed, born 1936.
Professor of Microelectronics.
Haroon Ahmed was born in Calcutta in 1936. The family fled to a refugee camp during the partition of India, and then by mercy flight to Karachi in Pakistan. They moved to London in 1954. After taking his A levels at Chiswick Polytechnic he took his degree at Imperial College. He obtained his PhD in the engineering department at Cambridge University, where he rose to be Reader and then moved to the Cavendish Laboratory where he was appointed Professor of Microelectronics. His research has been on microelectronics, micro and nanofabrication, electron and ion beam lithography, and semiconductor single electron devices. He was also elected as Master of Corpus Christi College.
This life story is based, with thanks and acknowledgement, on the transcript by Sarah Harrison of a filmed interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge on 8th December 2009. For links to this and other video interviews in the series, click here: Alan Macfarlane interviews.
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Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Haroon Ahmed and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020. Additional material was added by Haroon Ahmed in 2021.