Sandia Lab Celebrates Inventor of the Modern Clean Room 42
coondoggie writes "Sandia National Laboratories physicist Willis Whitfield, 92, passed away earlier this month and left a technological legacy that continues to reverberate today: The legendary clean room. The original laminar-flow 10 x 6 clean room developed 50 years ago by Whitfield was more than 1,000 times cleaner than any cleanrooms used at the time and ultimately revolutionized microelectronics, healthcare and manufacturing development. According to Sandia, with slight modifications, it is still the clean room standard today."
Re:Cleanrooms are obsolete (Score:4, Informative)
That's true for production cleanrooms, but not for research cleanrooms. I think we'll see even more of the latter, in the future.
I happen to work in one of the largest research cleanrooms in the world, BTW. 28000 square feet.