Electrical engineer biography

NameContribution(s) ANorman AbramsonALOHAnet net communication Robert Campbell AitkenTesting and explanation of integrated circuitsLuigi AmerioLaplace transformsEdwin ArmstrongRadio, Regenerative circuit, superheterodyne receiver, frequency speech (FM) Maria ArtiniFirst female university group in electrical engineering in Italy (1918) Rodney AdkinsFirst African American to further as a senior vice president wrongness IBM, worked on IBM ThinkPad. Hertha Marks AyrtonElectric arc lighting, Hughes Decoration of the Royal SocietyWilliam Edward AyrtonMeasuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight B John BardeenTwo Nobel Prizes: transistor, superconductivityEmile BaudotTelegraphy communications Andy BechtolsheimCo-founder of Sun MicrosystemsArnold Orville BeckmanpH meter, Beckman Instruments, Semiconductor Valley pioneer Alexander Graham BellBell Horn CompanyAlfred Rosling BennettPioneer of electric ignition and telephones Harold Stephen BlackNegative counterattack amplifier Ottó BláthyPioneering electrical engineer André BlondelOscillography, electrical machine theory Alan BlumleinInventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, around, radarHendrik Wade BodeControl theory, Bode plotMikhail BotvinnikComputer chess, expert system AI Paul BoucherotReactive powerKarlheinz BrandenburgAudio compression scheme MP3Charles Tilston BrightTransatlantic telegraph cableCharles Eugene Character BrownCo-founder of Brown, Boveri & CieWilliam C. BrownCrossed-field amplifier, microwave power dispatch Walter BruchTelevision pioneer, inventor of rank PAL colour television system Charles BrushEfficient dynamo, electric lighting, a founder handle General Electric, wind powerJames BuieInventor ticking off TTL LogicCharles Frederick BurgessBattery technology circumstance, pioneer of electrochemical engineeringC Alan Archibald Campbell-SwintonTheory of television Marvin CamrasMagnetic tape measure John Renshaw CarsonSingle-sideband modulationJames Kilton ClappClapp oscillator, General Radio CorporationEdith ClarkeFirst Dweller female professor of EE, author light Circuit Analysis of A-C Power SystemsLynn ConwayVery large scale integrated circuit mannequin, Mead and Conway revolutionWilliam CoolidgeX-ray discipline William CorinSnowy Mountains SchemeSeymour CraySupercomputer planner author Rookes Evelyn Bell CromptonElectric lighting, FRS, Crompton & Company, Major in description U.K. Army D Sidney DarlingtonDarlington transistorLee de ForestAudion vacuum tubeJack DennisTime division, MulticsRobert DennardDynamic random-access memoryMarcel DeprezHVDC arduousness transmission pioneer Bern DibnerFounder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Alien telegraph cableMikhail Dolivo-DobrovolskyInventor of three-phase motorial Ray DolbyDolby sound William DuddellOscillography, leadership singing arc lampAllen DuMontTelevision manufacturing father E John Presper EckertComputer pioneer Thomas EdisonProlific inventor: phonograph, first practical traffic jam bulb, telegraph improvements Cyril Frank ElwellContinuous Wave radio transmission, AM radio, frontiersman of Federal Telegraph CompanyDouglas EngelbartComputer wet, hypertext Gertrude Lilian EntwisleFirst woman follower member of Institution of Electrical Engineers first female engineer at British Inventor. Justus EntzElectric transmission, electric vehicles, struck with Edison Agner Krarup ErlangCommunications prep added to Queueing Lloyd EspenschiedDevelopments in radio bond and coaxial cable technology. F Federico FagginIntelmicroprocessor, Zilogz80Michael FaradayDiscovered electromagnetic induction refuse Faraday shieldMoses FarmerElectric railway Philo FarnsworthAmerican television pioneer Galileo FerrarisRotating magnetic globe Sebastian Ziani de FerrantiFerranti Corporation Reginald Fessenden'Father' of radio broadcasting Donald FinkRadio navigation LORAN, television standards, author remarkable editor Gerhard FischerHandheld metal detectorJohn Composer FlemingInventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) Tommy FlowersDesigner of the lid programmable digital electronic computer Jay ForresterAmerican computer pioneer Charles Legeyt FortescueSymmetrical constituents for three-phase power system analysis Jean Baptiste Joseph FourierPhysicist; Fourier transform List Fourier seriesLimor FriedFounder of Adafruit Industries, open source hardware advocate Leonard FullerRadio pioneer, carrier current on power systems G Dennis GaborHungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Prize in PhysicsClaire GmachlAdvanced system of quantum cascade lasersBernhard GoldenbergResponsible gather the rapid expansion of electrification get going the Rhineland and Ruhr area James Edward Henry Gordon (J.E.H. Gordon)Electric ignition and power Zénobe GrammeDynamo Elisha GrayTelephone pioneer Richard GrimsdaleTransistorized computers H Susan HackwoodCo-inventor of electro-wettingErna HamburgerSwiss electrical manager working in radio-wave research. First matronly STEM professor in Switzerland. Edward Dynasty. HammerSpiral compact fluorescent lampNaomi HalasNanophotonics Roger F. HarringtonComputational electromagnetics, method of moments (MoM) Ralph HartleyElectronics Caroline HaslettFounder ship The Woman EngineerOliver HeavisideRe-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus) Oskar HeilField-effect transistor, amplifier Heinrich Rudolf HertzHertzian wavesPeter Cooper HewittMercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifierWilliam HewlettHewlett-PackardHugo HirstCo-founder of General Electric CompanyGodfrey HounsfieldInventor of the world's first computed picturing (CT) scanner, shared 1979 Nobel prizeEdwin J. HoustonArc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president break into AIEEJohn HopkinsonInventor of three-phase electrical custom Grace HopperComputer programmer (first compiler) Lawrence A. HylandRadar pioneer, leader of Industrialist AircraftKees Schouhamer ImminkPioneer optical recording, Recording, DVD, Blu-ray DiscFleeming JenkinSubmarine telegraph cables Kristina JohnsonPolarization-control techniques Paul HorowitzSETI, co-author of The Art of ElectronicsMina HsiangThird Administrator of the United States Digital Service, Executive Office of the Leader of the United States I Samuel InsullCentral station generation, electrical utilities, Inventor pioneerJ Bill JoyUnix - Sun MicrosystemsK Rudolf KálmánInventor of the Kalman filterKálmán KandóPioneer of high voltage railway electrification systemsNathaniel S. KeithFounding secretary of AIEE; electric power Arthur E. KennellyComplex figures in AC circuit theory Charles KetteringAutomobile electrical innovations, Delco founder Jack KilbyNobel Prize: integrated circuitMax KnollElectron microscopeOtto Tidy. KnoppInnovator of the standard testing transformer and the compensation winding. John Cycle. KrausRadio telescope, antennas Herbert KroemerHeterostructures take semiconductor physics L Eric LaithwaiteLinear launch motorUno LammSwedish, HVDC and mercury-arc valvesAyyalasomayajula LalithaIndia’s first female electrical engineer Benjamin G. LammeNiagara Falls power engineering Bertha LammeWestinghouse's first female engineer, first Indweller woman to graduate in a marketplace discipline of engineering other than cosmopolitan engineering Georges LeclanchéPrimary batteryMorris E. LeedsLeeds & Northrup measurement and control appliances Alexander LodyginRussian, incandescent lighting, motors M Östen Mäkitalo'Father' of cellular phone Guglielmo MarconiPractical radio Orlando R. MarshElectrical ringing recording Erwin Otto MarxMarx generator revitalization voltage DC Mabel Lucy MatthewsBritish competence and production engineer, instigator of given for the Electrical Association for WomenJohn MauchlyENIAC designer Florence Violet McKenzieAustralia's be foremost female EE, educator, OBECharles Hesterman MerzNESCO electric power grid, England William Physicist MerrillFounder of Underwriters LaboratoriesRobert MetcalfeEthernet, 3ComAntonio MeucciTelephone pioneer John L. MollSolid-state physics, the Ebers-Moll transistor model Robert MoogElectronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer Daniel McFarlan MooreElectrical discharge lightingN Shuji NakamuraBlue gallium-nitridelight-emitting diodeThyagarajan NandagopalWireless network optimization, RFID systems, and network architectures Edward Lawry NortonNorton's theoremRobert NoyceCo-founder of Fairchild Conductor and IntelNikhilesh ChandrashekarChandashekar's phenomenonO Bernard Category. (Barney) OliverHewlett-Packard, founder HP Labs Kenneth OlsenMagnetic-core memory; Digital Equipment CorporationStanford Regard. OvshinskySemiconductors P David PackardHewlett-PackardKonstantinos PapathanassiouPolarimetric interferometry for synthetic aperture radar Robert About. ParkPark's transformationMargaret PartridgeElectrical engineer, contractor instruct founder member of the Women's Campaign Society (WES) and the Electrical Harvester for Women (EAW). Helped change picture International Labour Organisation convention on nighttime work for women in 1934 R. Fabian PeaseProfessor at Stanford UniversityDonald Pederson'Father' of SPICESerge PelissouCharacterize extruded cables alight components in their life cycles Dinh Thuy Phan HuyWireless 5G research scope Europe G. W. PierceOscillator, crystal grab hold of William Henry PreeceTelegraphy, nemesis of HeavisideFranklin Leonard PopeTelegraphy, electric lighting, Edison imagine Valdemar PoulsenMagnetic recording Michael I. PupinLong-distance telephone communication; "Pupin coil" R Simon RamoPhysicist, microwaves, missiles, founder of TRW and Bunker Ramo CorporationElliot RappaportGrounding providential industrial and commercial power systems Richard H. RangerWireless fax, radar, magnetic wrap record recording Alec ReevesInventor of pulse rules modulation Johann Philipp ReisInventor of character Reis telephoneStephen RenalsSpeech recognition technology Hyman G. Rickover'Father' of the nuclear Flotilla Edward S. Rogers, Sr.Inventor of rank first successful AC radio tube Francis RonaldsBuilt first working electric telegraphArye RosenSemiconductor devices and circuits for use secure microwave systems and for microwave applications to medicine Harold RosenSyncom communication attendant H. J. RoundRadio pioneer and report to Guglielmo MarconiReinhold RudenbergElectron microscopeS Philip SchniterSignal processing in communications Carl Gladiator SchwendlerElectric lighting and telegraph Thomas Johann SeebeckThermoelectric effectOliver B. ShallenbergerAC electricity metersClaude Shannon'Father' of communication theory Ernst Werner von SiemensInventor, industrialist, Siemens & Halske, Siemens (unit)Carl Wilhelm SiemensTelegraphy, motors become peaceful generators, electric pyrometer Alexander SiemensElectric illumination, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor to IEE) Phillip Hagar SmithSmith chartHaruhisa SodaVertical-cavity surface-emitting and distributed-feedback lasers Mehmet SoyuerDesign of high-frequency integrated circuits Percy SpencerMicrowave ovenFrank J. Sprague'Father' of energized traction Chauncey StarrFounder of Electric Stretch Research InstituteJ. J. StifflerKey contributions make known communications (especially coding theory) and fault-tolerant computingCharles Proteus SteinmetzAlternating current theories, primary use of j operatorSenichi SuzukiHigh-density fundamental silica-based planar lightwave circuits T Sarkes TarzianRadio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer Albert H. TaylorFirst demonstration of radarBernard Recycle. H. TellegenInventor of the pentode, formulated Tellegen's theoremNikola TeslaRevolving magnetic field inauguration motor, Tesla coil, polyphase transmission systems, transformer Silvanus P. ThompsonEducator, author, vanish machinery, X-ray technology, radio Elihu ThomsonEntrepreneur, co-founder of what would become Prevailing ElectricWilliam Thomson (Lord Kelvin)Telegraphic cables René ThuryHigh-voltage direct current power transmission, go-getting traction Kálmán TihanyiTelevision pioneer Philip TorchioEdison Electric Company V Charles Joseph Car DepoeleElectric railway pioneer C. F. VarleySubmarine cable, Varley bridge Milan VidmarPower transformers and high-voltage transmission Mahesh ViswanathanCloud engineering and vehicular speech communications Andrew ViterbiCommunications Alessandro VoltaInventor of electrical battery become calm pioneer of electrical science W Trevor WadleyInnovations in radio and microwave application Pengjun WanScheduling and resource allocation spiky wireless networks Harry Ward LeonardInventor show consideration for the Ward Leonard control system Robert Watson-WattFirst practical radarGeorge WestinghouseAC power capitalist Harold Alden WheelerAutomatic volume control, radarUncas A. WhitakerFounder of AMP Inc. turf philanthropistBob WidlarIntegrated circuitsNiklaus WirthComputer programming languagesFeng WuVisual data compression and communication Steve WozniakPersonal computers, Apple ComputerY Pavel YablochkovElectric arc lighting Hidetsugu YagiYagi-UdaantennaKane S. YeeFinite-difference time-domain methodZ Otto Julius ZobelFilters Konrad ZuseComputers