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C. Lester Hogan, whose move to the legendary Fairchild Camera & Instrument from Motorola with eight of its senior executives (dubbed “Hogan’s Heros” by some) resulted in Motorola (unsuccessfully) suing Fairchild for theft of trade secrets, died Tuesday, according to his daughter Cheryl Lee Lea Hogan, who shares his initials. He was 88.

The former Fairchild president and Harvard professor began his professional career at Bell Labs where he worked under Bill Shockley, inventor of the transistor and Nobel Prize laureate.

Hogan joined Fairchild — which is credited with developing the first practicable integrated circuit (pictured is a plaque memorializing the accomplishment) — in 1968m shortly after it lost founder Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove, who left to form Intel. Among the engineers Hogan brought with him to Fairchild was Wilf Corrigan, who later left to found LSI Logic.

A memorial is planned for 2 p.m. Friday, August 15, to be held at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, located at 695 Arastradero Road.