Dudley Allen Buck (1927–1959) was an electrical engineer and inventor of components for high-speed computing devices in the 1950s.
He is best known for invention of the cryotron, a superconductive computer component that is operated in liquid helium at a temperature near absolute zero.
Other inventions were ferroelectric memory, content addressable memory, non-destructive sensing of magnetic fields, and writing printed circuits with a beam of electrons.