Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame

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The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, founded by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), honors leaders whose creativity, persistence, determination and sheer personal charisma helped to shape an industry and made the consumer electronics marketplace what it is today. According to the CEA, the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inductees have made a significant contribution to the world, and without these people, our lives would not be the same.

The CEA announced the first 50 inductees into the Hall of Fame at the 2000 International Consumer Electronics Show. The first class of inductees was in 2000. Each year another group of inventors, engineers, business leaders, retailers and journalists are inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.

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2007 Inductees
Paul Allen John McDonald
Dr. Amar Bose Steven Sasson
Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg Richard Schulze
William G. Crutchfield, Jr. Dr. Dieter Seitzer
James Edward Day Art Weinberg
Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser
2006 Inductees
Dr. Donald Bitzer Howard Ladd
John F. Doyle Gordon Moore
Robert Galvin A.J. Richard
Andrew S. Grove John Roach
George Heilmeier H. Gene Slottow
Dr. Nicholas Holonyak Robert Willson
2005 Inductees
Ken Crane Art Levis
Joseph Donahue Jack Luskin
Harry Elias Masaharu Matsushita
George Fezell John Winegard
Saul Gold Engineering Team: William Hewlett and David Packard
2004 Inductees
Alan Dower Blumlein Paul Klipsch
Henry Brief Norio Ohga
Robert E. Gerson Dr. Woo Paik
Ken Kai Steven Wozniak
Jerry Kalov Wireless Team: Richard Frenkiel and Joel Engel
2003 Inductees
Herbert Borchardt Jules Steinberg
Leonard Feldman Kenjiro Takayanagi
Kees A. Schouhammer Immink Joseph Tushinsky
William Kasuga Alan Wurtzel
Atwater Kent
2002 Inductees
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson Walter Fisher
Bernard Appel Raymond Gates
W.G.B. Baker William Powell Lear
William E. Boss Sol Polk
Richard Ekstract Jack K. Sauter
2001 Inductees
Emil Berliner Earl Muntz
Sir John Ambrose Fleming Valdemar Poulsen
Hugo Gernsback George Westinghouse
Peter Laurits Jensen
2000 Inductees
Benjamin Abrams Ray Dolby Masaru Ibuka Alexander M. Poniatoff
Robert Adler Allen DuMont Eldridge Johnson Ed Roberts
Edwin Armstrong Thomas Edison Jack Kilby David Sarnoff
John Logie Baird Carl Eilers Henry Kloss Hermon Hosmer Scott
William Balderston Philo T. Farnsworth John Koss Sr. Yuma Shiraishi
John Bardeen Reginald Aubrey Fessenden David Lachenbruch William Shockley
Alexander Graham Bell Avery Fisher James B. Lansing Ross Siragusa Sr.
Andre Blay Frank Freimann Saul Marantz Shizuo Takano
Walter Brattain Paul Galvin Guglielmo Marconi Nikola Tesla
Karl Ferdinand Braun Charles Ginsburg Konosuke Matsushita Jack Wayman
Nolan Bushnell Peter Goldmark Cmdr. Eugene McDonald Jr. Vladimir Zworykin
Powel Crosley Jr. Dr. Sidney Harman Akio Morita
Lee DeForest Heinrich Hertz Robert Noyce

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