Who |
Contribution(s) |
Norman Abramson |
ALOHAnet network communication |
Luigi Amerio |
Laplace transforms |
Edwin Armstrong |
Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM) |
William Edward Ayrton |
Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight |
Hertha Marks Ayrton |
Electric arc lighting, Hughes Medal of the Royal Society |
John Bardeen |
Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity |
Emile Baudot |
Telegraphy communications |
Andy Bechtolsheim |
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems |
Arnold Orville Beckman |
pH meter, Beckman Instruments, Silicon Valley pioneer |
Alexander Graham Bell |
Bell Telephone Company |
Alfred Rosling Bennett |
Pioneer of electric lighting and telephones |
Harold Stephen Black |
Negative feedback amplifier |
Ottó Bláthy |
Pioneering electrical engineer |
André Blondel |
Oscillography, electrical machine theory |
Alan Blumlein |
Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar |
Hendrik Wade Bode |
Control theory, Bode plot |
Paul Boucherot |
Reactive power |
Karlheinz Brandenburg |
Audio compression scheme MP3 |
Charles Tilston Bright |
Transatlantic telegraph cable |
Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown |
Co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie |
William C. Brown |
Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission |
Walter Bruch |
Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system |
Charles F. Brush |
Efficient dynamo, electric lighting, a founder of General Electric, wind power |
James L. Buie |
Inventor of TTL Logic |
Charles Frederick Burgess |
Battery technology development, pioneer of electrochemical engineering |
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton |
Theory of television |
Marvin Camras |
Magnetic recording |
John Renshaw Carson |
Single-sideband modulation |
James Kilton Clapp |
Clapp oscillator, General Radio Corporation |
Lynn Conway |
Very large scale integrated circuit design, Mead & Conway revolution |
William Coolidge |
X-ray technology |
William Corin |
Snowy Mountains Scheme |
Seymour Cray |
Supercomputer architect |
R. E. B. Crompton |
Electric lighting, FRS, Crompton &Co., Major in the U.K. Army |
Sidney Darlington |
Darlington transistor |
Lee DeForest |
Audion vacuum tube |
Jack Dennis |
Time sharing, Multics |
Robert H. Dennard |
Dynamic random-access memory |
Marcel Deprez |
HVDC power transmission pioneer |
Bern Dibner |
Founder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Transatlantic telegraph cable |
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky |
Inventor of three-phase motor |
Ray Dolby |
Dolby sound |
William Duddell |
Oscillography, the singing arc lamp |
Allen B. DuMont |
Television manufacturing pioneer |
J. Presper Eckert |
Computer pioneer |
Thomas Edison |
Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements |
Douglas Engelbart |
Computer mouse, hypertext |
Justus B. Entz |
Electric transmission,electric vehicles, worked with Edison |
A. K. Erlang |
Communications and Queueing |
Lloyd Espenschied |
Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology. |
Federico Faggin |
Intel microprocessor, Zilog z80 |
Michael Faraday |
Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield |
Moses G. Farmer |
Electric railway |
Philo T. Farnsworth |
American television pioneer |
Galileo Ferraris |
Rotating magnetic field |
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
Ferranti Corporation |
Reginald Fessenden |
'Father' of radio broadcasting |
Donald G. Fink |
Radio navigation LORAN, television standards, author and editor |
Gerhard Fischer |
Handheld metal detector |
John Ambrose Fleming |
Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) |
Thomas Flowers |
Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer |
Jay Forrester |
American computer pioneer |
Charles Legeyt Fortescue |
Symmetrical components for three-phase power system analysis |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Physicist; Fourier transform / Fourier series |
Limor Fried |
Founder of Adafruit Industries, open source hardware advocate |
Leonard F. Fuller |
Radio pioneer, carrier current on power systems |
Dennis Gabor |
Hungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Laureate |
James Edward Henry Gordon (J.E.H. Gordon) |
Electric lighting and power |
Zénobe Gramme |
Dynamo |
Elisha Gray |
Telephone pioneer |
Richard Grimsdale |
Transistorized computers |
Edward E. Hammer |
Spiral compact fluorescent lamp |
Ralph Hartley |
Electronics |
Oliver Heaviside |
Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus) |
Oskar Heil |
Field-effect transistor, loudspeaker |
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz |
Hertzian waves |
Peter Cooper Hewitt |
Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier |
William Hewlett |
Hewlett-Packard |
Hugo Hirst |
Co-founder of General Electric Company plc |
Godfrey Hounsfield |
Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared 1979 Nobel prize |
Edwin J. Houston |
Arc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE |
John Hopkinson |
Inventor of three-phase electrical system |
Grace Hopper |
Computer programmer (first compiler) |
Paul Horowitz |
SETI, co-author of The Art of Electronics |
Lawrence A. Hyland |
Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft |
Kees Schouhamer Immink |
Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc |
Samuel Insull |
Central station generation, electrical utilities, Edison pioneer |
Fleeming Jenkin |
Submarine telegraph cables |
Bill Joy |
Unix - Sun Microsystems |
Rudolf Kalman |
Inventor of the Kalman filter |
Kálmán Kandó |
Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification systems |
Nathaniel S. Keith |
Founding secretary of AIEE; electric power |
Arthur E. Kennelly |
Complex numbers in AC circuit theory |
Charles Kettering |
Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder |
Jack Kilby |
Nobel prize: integrated circuit |
Max Knoll |
Electron microscope |
John D. Kraus |
Radio telescope, antennas |
Herbert Kroemer |
Heterostructures and semiconductor physics |
Eric Laithwaite |
Linear induction motor |
Uno Lamm |
Swedish, HVDC and mercury-arc valves |
Benjamin G. Lamme |
Niagara Falls power engineering |
Georges Leclanché |
Primary battery |
Morris E. Leeds |
Leeds & Northrup measurement and control devices |
Alexander Lodygin |
Russian, incandescent lighting, motors |
Östen Mäkitalo |
'Father' of cellular phone |
Guglielmo Marconi |
Practical radio |
Orlando R. Marsh |
Electrical sound recording |
Erwin Otto Marx |
Marx generator high voltage DC |
John Mauchly |
ENIAC designer |
Florence Violet McKenzie |
Australia's first female EE, educator, OBE |
Charles Hesterman Merz |
NESCO electric power grid, England |
William Henry Merrill |
Founder of Underwriters Laboratories |
Robert Metcalfe |
Ethernet, 3Com |
Antonio Meucci |
Telephone pioneer |
John L. Moll |
Solid-state physics, the Ebers-Moll transistor model |
Robert Moog |
Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer |
Daniel McFarlan Moore |
Electrical discharge lighting |
Shuji Nakamura |
Blue gallium-nitride light emitting diode |
Edward Lawry Norton |
Norton's theorem |
Robert Noyce |
Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel |
Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver |
Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs |
Kenneth Olsen |
Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation |
Stanford R. Ovshinsky |
Semiconductors |
David Packard |
Hewlett-Packard |
Robert H. Park |
Park's transformation |
Donald Pederson |
'Father' of SPICE |
G. W. Pierce |
Oscillator, crystal control |
William Henry Preece |
Telegraphy, nemesis of Heaviside |
Franklin Leonard Pope |
Telegraphy, electric lighting, Edison influence |
Valdemar Poulsen |
Magnetic recording |
Michael I. Pupin |
Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil" |
Simon Ramo |
Physicist, microwaves, missiles, founder TRW and Bunker Ramo Corporation |
Richard H. Ranger |
Wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording |
Alec Reeves |
Inventor of pulse code modulation |
Johann Philipp Reis |
Inventor of the Reis telephone |
Hyman G. Rickover |
'Father' of the nuclear Navy |
Edward S. Rogers, Sr. |
Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube |
Arye Rosen |
Semiconductor devices and circuits for use in microwave systems and for microwave applications to medicine |
Harold Rosen |
Syncom communication satellite |
H. J. Round |
Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi |
Reinhold Rudenberg |
Electron microscope |
Carl Louis Schwendler |
Electric lighting and telegraph |
Thomas Johann Seebeck |
Thermoelectric effect |
Oliver B. Shallenberger |
AC electricity meters |
Claude Shannon |
'Father' of communication theory |
Ernst Werner von Siemens |
Inventor, industrialist, Siemens & Halske, Siemens (unit) |
Carl Wilhelm Siemens |
Telegraphy, motors and generators, electric pyrometer |
Alexander Siemens |
Electric lighting, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor to IEE) |
Phillip Hagar Smith |
Smith chart |
Percy Spencer |
Microwave oven |
Frank J. Sprague |
'Father' of electric traction |
Chauncey Starr |
Founder of Electric Power Research Institute |
Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
Alternating current theories, first use of j operator |
Sarkes Tarzian |
Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer |
Albert H. Taylor |
First demonstration of radar |
Bernard D. H. Tellegen |
Inventor of the pentode, formulated Tellegen's theorem |
Nikola Tesla |
Revolving magnetic field induction motor, Tesla coil, polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
Silvanus P. Thompson |
Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-ray technology, radio |
Elihu Thomson |
Entrepreneur, co-founder of what would become General Electric |
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |
Telegraphic cables |
René Thury |
High voltage direct current power transmission, electric traction |
Kálmán Tihanyi |
Television pioneer |
Philip Torchio |
Edison Electric Company |
Charles Joseph Van Depoele |
Electric railway pioneer |
C. F. Varley |
Submarine cable, Varley bridge |
Milan Vidmar |
Power transformers and high-voltage transmission |
Andrew Viterbi |
Communications |
Alessandro Volta |
Inventor of electrical battery and pioneer of electrical science |
Trevor Wadley |
Innovations in radio and microwave technology |
Harry Ward Leonard |
Inventor of the Ward Leonard control system. |
Robert Watson-Watt |
First practical radar |
George Westinghouse |
AC power industrialist |
Harold Alden Wheeler |
Automatic volume control, radar |
Uncas A. Whitaker |
Founder of AMP Inc. and philanthropist |
Bob Widlar |
Integrated circuits |
Niklaus Wirth |
Computer programming languages |
Steve Wozniak |
Personal computers, Apple Computer |
Pavel Yablochkov |
Electric arc lighting |
Hidetsugu Yagi |
Yagi-Uda antenna |
Otto Julius Zobel |
Filters |
Konrad Zuse |
Computers |