- Alan Blumlein
Alan Dower Blumlein, (born June 29, 1903 in Hampstead, London, died June 7, 1942) was an electronics engineer who made a great many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar. He received 128 patents. Front cover of Blumlein [http://www.doramusic.com/blumlein.htm biography] - Tommy Flowers
Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed "Colossus", an early electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Flowers was born in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer. After an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he earned a degree in electrical engineering at the University of London. - David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996) was a cofounder of Hewlett-Packard. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934. Afterwards he worked for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned from New York to Stanford, where he received a master's in electrical engineering the following year. In the same year, he married Lucile Salter with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. - Ivor Catt
Ivor Catt (born 1935) is a British electronics engineer known principally for his controversial approach to electromagnetism. He received B.Eng. degree from Cambridge University, and has won two major product awards for his innovative computer chip designs (see Awards section below). His most recent challenge to the status quo in electromagnetism is called "The Catt anomaly". - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE, FRS, (28 August 1919 - 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT). His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HF), … - Carver Mead
Professor Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934, in Bakersfield, California) is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. He is the Gordon and Betty Moore professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years. Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting his B.S. in 1956, his M.S. in 1957, and his Ph.D. degree in 1960. - Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby is the American inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories. Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon in 1933 and raised in San Francisco. As a teenager he held part-time and summer jobs at Ampex, working with their first audio tape recorder in 1949. While at Stanford University from 1953–57, Dolby continued at Ampex, … - Adolf Tolkachev
Adolf Tolkachev was a Soviet Union electronics engineer who provided key documents to the CIA over the years between 1979 and 1985. Working at the Soviet radar design house Phazotron as one of the chief designers, Tolkachev gave the CIA complete information about such projects as the R-23, R-24, R-33, R-27, and R-60, S-300; fighter-interceptor aircraft radars used on the MiG-29, MiG-31, and Su-27; and other avionics. - Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of the FM radio. - Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. - Vebjørn Tandberg
Electronics engineer Vebjørn Tandberg, an alumnus of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, founded "Tandbergs Radiofabrikk" ("Tandberg's Radio Factory") of Oslo, Norway in 1933, and made it a great success. In addition to his technical and commercial achievements, Tandberg was a pioneer in providing good conditions for his workforce. He instituted a 42 hour week and 3 weeks yearly vacation for all in 1937, … - Alexander Tetelbaum
Alexander Tetelbaum (born 1948 in Kiev, Ukraine) is an educator, inventor, scientist, academician, and entrepreneur. He has been a pioneer in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry since the 1960s. He has been selected and has held high level positions in academia and industry. He is a Fellow and Honorary Doctor of several universities, academies, and societies. He holds more than 30 US patents and is the author and co-author of 250 publications, including 8 books. - Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS FRAeS (April 13, 1892-December 5, 1973), is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but Watson-Watt created the first workable radar system, turning the theory into one of the most important war-winning weapons. The Official WEB Page:- www.watsonwatt.org - Alec Reeves
Alec Harley Reeves (10 March 1902 - 13 October 1971) was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation (PCM). Reeves was born in Redhill, Surrey. His father Edward was surveyor to the Royal Geographical Society. Alec studied engineering at Imperial College London and in 1923 joined International Western Electric, a leading manufacturer of radio and telecommunications equipment. - Julius Futterman
Julius Futterman (? - 1979) was an American electronics engineer who designed a valve amplifier that did not have an output transformer. This was originally done to reduce costs, as output transformers can be rather expensive. Output transformers also have a reputation for coloring the sound and some enthusiasts came to believe that the OTL design offered better sound. - Julian Vereker
Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker, MBE (7 May 1945-14 January 2000) was an English audio electronics engineer, and founder of Naim Audio Ltd. of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Vereker was an engineer in the specialist high fidelity audio equipment field. He was a very influentual figure in the manufacture and retail of British audio in the 1970s and 1980s, and was appointed MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1995. - Param Vir
Param Vir (born February 6, 1952 in Delhi) is a British composer originally from India. - Ralph Hartley
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. Hartley was born in Spruce, Nevada, USA and attended the University of Utah, receiving an A.B. degree in 1909. He became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. He married Florence Vail of Brooklyn on March 21, 1916. - Martin Mobberley
Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is an amateur British astronomer, author, and former electronics engineer. He images a wide variety of objects, including comets, planets, novae, supernovae and asteroids from his observatory in Suffolk, England. - Vladimir Savchenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko ([Ukrainian]: Володимир Іванович Савченко;Russian language: Владимир Иванович Савченко), born 15 February 1933 in Poltava, died 24 January 2005 in Kiev), was a Ukrainian science fiction writer. He studied at the Moscow Energy Institute, and was an electronics engineer. Savchenko, who wrote in Russian as well as in his native Ukrainian language, … - Lars Monrad Krohn
Lars Monrad-Krohn (born July 14, 1933) is a Norwegian engineer and entrepreneur. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Institute for Radio Technology, (NTH, Institutt for Radioteknikk) in 1959. His master thesis addressed construction of computer core memory and was the first computer-oriented thesis handed in at NTH. As an entrepreneur, Monrad-Krohn established Norsk Data AS in 1967 (CEO 1967-1972), established A/S Mycron in 1975 (CEO 1975-1982), … - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863–1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer born in Edinburgh. He described an electronic basis of producing television in a 1908 letter to "Nature". - Rosalind Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and is co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Masters and Doctorate degrees, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT. - Bruce Zinky
Bruce Zinky is an American Electronic Engineer based in Flagstaff, Arizona After graduating from Chico State University, he headed the Fender amplifier "custom shop" in the early 1990s, helping to return Fender to the forefront of quality professional instrument amplifier manufacturers. After leaving Fender, he began marketing the Smokey Amp - a tiny, but powerful amplifier so called because it was made to fit in a cigarette pack. - Camillo Olivetti
Camillo Olivetti (born August 1868 in Ivrea - died December 1943 in Biella) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. - Ryo Kawasaki
Ryo Kawasaki (February 25 1947 -) chose a career as a jazz fusion guitarist after spending some years studying as a scientist. During the 60s he played with various Japanese jazz groups and also formed his own bands. In the early 70s he came to New York where he settled and found steady work in very distinguished company, including the bands of Gil Evans, Elvin Jones, Chico Hamilton, Ted Curson and Joanne Brackeen. - Hermann Gummel
Hermann K. Gummel is a pioneer in semiconductor industry. Gummel joined Bell Labs in 1957. Since this time he made a number of fundamental contributions in areas central to electronic design. Among the most important of his contributions are the Gummel-Poon model which made accurate simulation of bipolar transisors possible and which was central to the development of the SPICE program, Gummel's Method, … - Geoffrey Dummer
Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (February 25, 1909 - September 16, 2002) is an electronics author and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. - Tadeusz Zagajewski
Tadeusz Zagajewski is a Polish electronic engineer. Professor (since 1954) and honoris causa of Silesian University of Technology, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1960; full member since 1976), honorable member of Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering. Author of works mainly about electrical network theory. - Wing Commander John Scott-Taggart
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