Leon O. Chua is known worldwide as the father of

nonlinear circuit theory and inventor of the memristor,

the Cellular Neural Network, and the Chua Circuit, the

first real-world system proved to exhibit chaos. His

publications, which span many disciplines in engineering,

biology, brain science, physics, and mathematics, have

attracted more than 80,000 citations, with an h-index of

125, as of 8 April 2020.

His body of work has been recognized by numerous prestigious prizes, including the

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneers Award,

and the Guggenheim Fellow Award.

In recognition of his discovery of the memristor, he has been conferred the most

prestigious honors by two unrelated professional societies that celebrate the

memristor’s fundamental and multi-disciplinary applications, namely, the 2019 IEEE

Electronic Device Society Celebrated member Award, and the 2020 Julius

Springer Prize for Applied Physics, thereby entrenching him in the company of

luminaries who have been previous EDS awardees, like the Nobel laureates George

Pearson Smith in 2010, Herbert Kroemer in 2011, and Leo Esaki in 2012

respectively, as well as industry giants like Robert Dennard (of Dennard’s scaling

law) in 2015, and Gordon Moore (of Moore’s Law fame) in 2017.

He was awarded 17 Honorary Doctorates from major European universities and

Japan, and conferred an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the

Technical University of Munich.

His inventions are widely applied in industry and disseminated synergetically at the

Chua Memristor Center (CMC) in Dresden, Germany, and at the Chua Memristor

Institute (CMI) in Wuhan, China. Professor Chua was elected a member of the

Academia Europaea, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Interestingly, he was also elected Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin in 2000.

When not immersed in Science, he relaxes by searching for Wagner’s leitmotifs,

musing over Kandinsky’s chaos, and contemplating Wittgenstein’s inner thoughts.