Eli Harari

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Eli Harari
TitleFounder of SanDisk

Eliyahou Harari[1] is an American business executive best known for being the co-founder of SanDisk along with Sanjay Mehrotra.[2]

Early life and education[]

He was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel.[3] His parents were Polish Jews who had immigrated to Palestine before Israel's formation.[3]

He was born and raised in the state of Israel.[4] He completed his Bachelor's Degree at Manchester University in England. He completed his Master's degree in Physics at Princeton University and his subject of study was semiconductors.[4]

Career[]

Hughes Aircraft[]

As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM.[4]

Intel[]

His very first job after graduating university was at Intel. He later went on to work for a number of startups including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk.[4]

SanDisk[]

He founded SanDisk in 1988 along with Sanjay Mehrotra.[2]

Awards and recognition[]

He has more than 180 patents.[5] He has received numerous awards including:

  • 2006 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award
  • 2009 Robert N. Noyce Medal
  • 2014 National Medal of Technology[3]
  • He has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Dr. Eli Harari". NAE Website.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Eli Harari". CHM.
  3. ^ a b c "Eli Harari". National Museum of American History. June 22, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d "Harari, Eli oral history | 102745933 | Computer History Museum". www.computerhistory.org.
  5. ^ a b "Eli Harari *73 is Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering". mae.princeton.edu.
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