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For the politician, see <a href="/wiki/Don_Pederson" title="Don Pederson">Don Pederson</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Donald O. Pederson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Donald_O._Pederson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Donald_O._Pederson.jpg" decoding="async" width="177" height="250" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="177" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">September 30, 1925<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Hallock,_Minnesota" title="Hallock, Minnesota">Hallock, Minnesota</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 25, 2004<span style="display:none">(2004-12-25)</span> (aged 79)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Concord,_CA" class="mw-redirect" title="Concord, CA">Concord, CA</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Agricultural_College" class="mw-redirect" title="North Dakota Agricultural College">North Dakota Agricultural College</a> (now <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_State_University" title="North Dakota State University">North Dakota State University</a>), <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Circuit_design" title="Circuit design">Circuit design</a>, <a href="/wiki/Computer-aided_design" title="Computer-aided design">CAD</a>, <a href="/wiki/SPICE" title="SPICE">SPICE</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor" title="IEEE Medal of Honor">IEEE Medal of Honor</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Electronic_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic Engineering">Electronic Engineer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Berkeley" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California Berkeley">University of California Berkeley</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Institute_of_Technology" title="New Jersey Institute of Technology">New Jersey Institute of Technology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Pettit" title="Joseph M. Pettit">Joseph M. Pettit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/A._Richard_Newton" title="A. Richard Newton">A. Richard Newton</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Donald Oscar Pederson</b> (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, and one of the designers of <a href="/wiki/SPICE" title="SPICE">SPICE</a>, a simulator for <a href="/wiki/Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">integrated circuits</a> that has been universally used as a teaching tool and in the everyday work of circuits engineers. The <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Donald_O._Pederson_Award_in_Solid-State_Circuits" title="IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits">IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits</a> is named in his honor. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Pederson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pederson was born in <a href="/wiki/Hallock,_Minnesota" title="Hallock, Minnesota">Hallock, Minnesota</a> to Oscar Jorgan and Beda Emilia Pederson. He attended <a href="/wiki/Fergus_Falls_Public_Schools" title="Fergus Falls Public Schools">Fergus Falls Public Schools</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fergus_Falls,_Minnesota" title="Fergus Falls, Minnesota">Fergus Falls, Minnesota</a> during which time he built his first <a href="/wiki/Crystal_radio" title="Crystal radio">crystal radio</a> by using junkyard finds and spare parts which were given by his uncle and cousin. During those years he also saved money, and eventually bought his first <a href="/wiki/Soldering_iron" title="Soldering iron">soldering iron</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Vacuum_tube" title="Vacuum tube">vacuum tube</a>. Don's passion for electronics began in high school during physics class in <a href="/wiki/Fargo,_North_Dakota" title="Fargo, North Dakota">Fargo, North Dakota</a> where his parents had moved. He graduated high school at age 17 and entered <a href="/wiki/Iowa_State_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Iowa State College">Iowa State College</a> in the autumn of 1943, but then left for the military during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. He served as a private in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> in Austria, Germany, France and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> from 1943 to 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-nas_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon his return from military service, he continued his undergraduate education at <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Agricultural_College" class="mw-redirect" title="North Dakota Agricultural College">North Dakota Agricultural College</a> (now <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_State_University" title="North Dakota State University">North Dakota State University</a>) and earned a bachelor's degree in <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> in 1948. He then attended <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> for graduate school, where he received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1949 and a Ph.D. in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-nas_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pederson remained at Stanford as a researcher in the university's electronics research lab. From 1953 to 1955, he worked at <a href="/wiki/Bell_Labs" title="Bell Labs">Bell Telephone Laboratories</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Murray_Hill,_New_Jersey" title="Murray Hill, New Jersey">Murray Hill, New Jersey</a>, and lectured at Newark College of Engineering (now <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Institute_of_Technology" title="New Jersey Institute of Technology">New Jersey Institute of Technology</a>). In 1955, Pederson joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. In the early 1970s he began work on <a href="/wiki/SPICE" title="SPICE">SPICE</a>, with his colleagues from the Electronic Research Lab.<sup id="cite_ref-nas_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retired in 1991, but continued to teach part-time.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pederson died on December 25, 2004, in <a href="/wiki/Concord,_California" title="Concord, California">Concord, California</a>, of complications from <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Pederson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1969: <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Education_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE Education Medal">IEEE Education Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Centennial_Medal" title="IEEE Centennial Medal">IEEE Centennial Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-eecs_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eecs-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Kaufman_Award" title="Phil Kaufman Award">Phil Kaufman Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1996: Computer & Communication Promotion Prize<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor" title="IEEE Medal of Honor">IEEE Medal of Honor</a> for "creation of the SPICE Program, universally used for the computer aided design of circuits"<sup id="cite_ref-eecs_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eecs-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Pederson was a member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a>. He was also a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers" title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</a>, the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nas_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_recognitions">Other recognitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Pederson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other recognitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1987 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) named one of its major awards in his honor, the <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Donald_O._Pederson_Award_in_Solid-State_Circuits" title="IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits">IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits</a>. It is a <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers#Technical_field_awards" title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">Technical Field Award</a> given by the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">board of directors</a> level of the IEEE. It had previously been simply called the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Pederson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Don was married to Claire N. Pederson and together they had three daughters (Emily Sanders, Margaret Stanfield, and Katharine Rookard) and a son (John). 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Pederson [electronic engineering biography]". <i><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Spectrum" title="IEEE Spectrum">IEEE Spectrum</a></i>. Vol. 35, no. 6.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=IEEE+Spectrum&rft.atitle=Donald+O.+Pederson+%5Belectronic+engineering+biography%5D&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=6&rft.date=1998-06&rft.au=Perry%2C+Tekla+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADonald+Pederson" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFL.W._NagelD._O._Pederson1973" class="citation web cs1">L.W. Nagel & D. O. Pederson (April 12, 1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1973/ERL-382.pdf">"SPICE (Simulation Program With Integrated Circuit Emphasis)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (Memorandum No. ERL-M382). Electronics Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=SPICE+%28Simulation+Program+With+Integrated+Circuit+Emphasis%29&rft.pub=Electronics+Research+Laboratory%2C+College+of+Engineering%2C+University+of+California%2C+Berkeley&rft.date=1973-04-12&rft.au=L.W.+Nagel&rft.au=D.+O.+Pederson&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eecs.berkeley.edu%2FPubs%2FTechRpts%2F1973%2FERL-382.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADonald+Pederson" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Pederson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Southworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Hays_Hammond_Jr." title="John Hays Hammond Jr.">John Hays Hammond Jr.</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_A._Wheeler" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold A. Wheeler">Harold A. Wheeler</a> (1964)</li> <li><i>No award</i> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Elwood_Shannon" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude Elwood Shannon">Claude Elwood Shannon</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Townes" title="Charles H. Townes">Charles H. Townes</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_K._Teal" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon K. Teal">Gordon K. Teal</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ginzton" title="Edward Ginzton">Edward Ginzton</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Gabor" title="Dennis Gabor">Dennis Gabor</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">John Bardeen</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_W._Forester" class="mw-redirect" title="Jay W. Forester">Jay W. 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Earle Vaughan</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Noyce" title="Robert Noyce">Robert Noyce</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bellman" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Bellman">Richard Bellman</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Shockley" title="William Shockley">William Shockley</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Darlington" title="Sidney Darlington">Sidney Darlington</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tukey" title="John Tukey">John Tukey</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolaas_Bloembergen" title="Nicolaas Bloembergen">Nicolaas Bloembergen</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_F._Ramsey" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman F. Ramsey">Norman F. 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