Henry Kressel

Kressel's parents and sister were murdered in The Holocaust during World War II, after which Kressel emigrated to the United States. He entered Chaim Berlin High School in 1947 and graduated in 1951. Kressel earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yeshiva College, a master's in applied physics from Harvard University, an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in material science, also from the University of Pennsylvania. ==Career==

Kressel joined RCA Laboratories in 1959, and spent 23 years there. He was in charge of development and commercialization of research developments in a variety of fields including light sources, light detectors, and integrated circuits. The development of the first practical laser diodes and the first epitaxial silicon solar cell are also attributed to him. He eventually became vice president of solid-state electronic research and development. Kressel joined Warburg Pincus in 1983. ==Memberships and awards==

Kressel received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. He received the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1985 for "contributions to electronic devices". and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2008, Kressel created a scholarship at Yeshiva University in his own name, the Henry Kressel Research Scholarship. ==Patents and publications==

Kressel holds 33 United States patents and has published more than 120 papers. He has also published six books: • • • • • • ==References==