give the Nazi Party salute at patent hearings. Lamm's Ph.D. thesis was titled "The Transductor, DC Pre-Saturated Reactor". While describing this device at a lecture in the United States he also mentioned that the same principle could be applied to resistors, making a transistor. This was the name later applied to the solid-state amplifier. Personal life Lamm was married twice and had four children. He died on June 1, 1989, aged 85, in Burlingame, California. Awards Lamm's achievements won him a number of professional awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science in 1939 Polhem Prize by Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers in 1940 Arnberg Award of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1947 Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Inventors in 1961 John Ericsson Award from the American Society of Swedish Engineers in 1962 IEEE Lamme Medal from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) in 1965. Howard N. Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1981 References 1904 births 1989 deaths People from Gothenburg KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Swedish electrical engineers 20th-century Swedish inventors Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Howard N. Potts Medal recipients IEEE Lamme Medal recipients Swedish emigrants to the United States