| Who |
Contribution(s) |
| Norman Abramson |
ALOHAnet network communication |
| Edwin Armstrong |
Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM) |
| William Edward Ayrton |
Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight |
| John Bardeen |
Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity |
| Emile Baudot |
Telegraphy communications |
| Andy Bechtolsheim |
Cofounder 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 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 dynamos, electric lighting,founder of one of the General Electric companies, wind power |
| Charles Frederick Burgess |
Batteries' 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-rays |
| William Corin |
Snowy Mountains Scheme |
| R. E. B. Crompton |
electric lighting, instruments, manufacturer |
| Seymour Cray |
Supercomputer architect |
| Sidney Darlington |
the Darlington transistor |
| Lee DeForest |
Audion vacuum tube |
| Georges de Mestral |
Velcro |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, General Electric Company plc |
| Godfrey Hounsfield |
Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared a 1979 Nobel prize |
| Edwin J. Houston |
Arc lighting, cofounder 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, coauthor 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 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 |
| Hedy Lamarr |
Communications |
| 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 |
| Charles Hesterman Merz |
NESCO Electric power grid, England |
| William Henry Merrill |
founder of Underwriters Laboratories |
| Robert Metcalfe |
Ethernet, 3Com |
| 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 diodes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, Electric Power Research Institute |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
Alternating current theories |
| 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 electric motor, Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
| Silvanus P. Thompson |
Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-rays, 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 |
| Charles Joseph Van Depoele |
Electric railway pioneer |
| C. F. Varley |
Submarine cable, Varley bridge |
| Milan Vidmar |
Power transformers and transmission of electric current |
| Andrew Viterbi |
Communications |
| 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, CEO of Yahoo |
| Hidetsugu Yagi |
Yagi-Uda antenna |
| Otto Julius Zobel |
Filters |
| Konrad Zuse |
Computers |