Eli Harari
{{short description|American business executive and founder of SanDisk}}
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Eliyahou Harari{{Cite web|url=https://nae.edu/69267/Dr-Eli-Harari|title=Dr. Eli Harari|website=NAE Website}} is an Israeli-American business executive best known for being the co-founder of SanDisk along with Sanjay Mehrotra.{{Cite web|url=https://computerhistory.org/profile/eli-harari/|title=Dr. Eli Harari|website=CHM}}
Early life and education
Harari was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel.{{Cite web|url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/family-voices/individuals/eli-harari|title=Eli Harari|date=June 22, 2016|website=National Museum of American History}} His parents were Polish Jews who at 1933 had immigrated to Palestine before Israel's formation.
He was born and raised in Israel.{{Cite web |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102745933|title=Harari, Eli oral history | 102745933 | Computer History Museum|website=www.computerhistory.org|date=June 15, 2011 }} 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.
Career
= Hughes Aircraft =
As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM.
= Intel =
His first job after graduating university was at Intel. He later went to work for a number of startups, including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk.
= SanDisk =
He and Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988.
Awards and recognition
He has more than 180 patents.{{Cite web|url=https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/news/eli-harari-73-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fame|title=Eli Harari *73 is Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering|website=mae.princeton.edu}} 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
- He has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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