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In 1965 George Castro (PhD), authored a doctrinal thesis at Dartmouth College that demonstrated that organic materials could conduct electricity when exposed to light[1]. At that time this was a significant scientific achievement and led to an opportunity to conduct more research in this area at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1967.[2] IBM hired him as a Research Staff Member in 1968 to help lead development into Organic PhotoConductors, a project he came to manage and which was key to IBM's development of both the Copier I and the IBM 3800. IBM needed this both to avoid patent infringement with Xerox (who used a photoconductor based on selenium) and to let them use plain paper in their Copiers. George Castro has been referred to as the inventor of the IBM Copier.[3]
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[edit]- ^ "George Castro, PhD". SACNAS. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
- ^ Group, Career Communications (1987). Hispanic Engineer & IT. Career Communications Group.
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