Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

male, deceased (2001)
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of...
Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak

male, 81 years old
Nick Holonyak Jr. was born in Zeigler, Illinois on November 3, 1928. Holonyak was John Bardeen's first PhD student at the University of Illinois at...
Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest

male, deceased (1961)
Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak...
Herwig Kogelnik

Herwig Kogelnik

male, 77 years old
Herwig Kogelnik (b. June 2, 1932) is an electrical engineer working in optical communications. He was born in Graz, Austria and he received his...
Tadahiro Sekimoto

Tadahiro Sekimoto

male, 83 years old
Over the past half-century, Dr. Tadahiro Sekimoto has contributed significantly to the enormous growth of the NEC Corporaton and Japan's...
Frederick Terman

Frederick Terman

male, deceased (1982)
Frederick Emmons Terman (born June 7, 1900 in English, Indiana; died December 19, 1982) was an American academic. He is widely credited (together...