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20th November 2015, 12:20 PM
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Famous Electricians
Can you list me the names of famous Electrical Engineers in the world who made notable contributions to Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering?
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20th November 2015, 01:01 PM
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Re: Famous Electricians
The names of famous Electrical Engineers in the world who made notable contributions to Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering are as follows: Name 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 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 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 Jerry Yang Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo Hidetsugu Yagi Yagi-Uda antenna Otto Julius Zobel Filters Konrad Zuse Computers |
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