Horst H. Berger is a German

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 electrical engineer noted for his contributions to semiconductor

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 technologies for integrated circuit

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Berger was born in Liegnitz (Legnica)

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, Lower Silesia

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, and received the Vordiplom. from the Technische Hochschule

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 of Dresden

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, then worked at the IBM

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 Laboratories in Böblingen

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. Afterwards he became a researcher and teacher at the Technical University of Berlin

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Together with Siegfried K. Wiedmann

Siegfried K. Wiedmann

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, Berger received the 1977 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers , the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who had "made public during the recent past an important...

 "for the invention and exploration of the Merged Transistor Logic, MTL".

Selected works

• H. H. Berger and S. K. Wiedmann, "Merged-Transistor Logic (MTL) - A Low-Cost Bipolar Logic Concept", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-7, No. 5, Oct. 1972, pp. 340-346.