Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith

male, deceased (1929)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, American, German-American, computer pioneer, inventor, Statistician
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 - November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards...
Robert Noyce

Robert Noyce

male, deceased (1990)
Intel person, Gordon E. Moore, Business Person, computer pioneer, physicist, Silicon Valley…inventor
Robert Noyce, Ph.D. (December 12, 1927 - June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and...
Vladimir Zworykin

Vladimir Zworykin

male, deceased (1982)
University of Pittsburgh, inventor, naturalized citizen of the United States, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Russian, Russian Orthodox Christian
Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin (July 30, 1889 - July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin...
Robert Adler

Robert Adler

male, deceased (2007)
Jewish, inventor, Emmy Award winner, Austrian, Austrian-American, patent
Robert Adler (December 4 1913 - February 15 2007) was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents.
Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle

male, deceased (1996)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, jet engine, inventor, Sir Frank Whittle, Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Member of the Order of Merit
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907-9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer and is seen as the...
Robert Jarvik

Robert Jarvik

male, 63 years old
Robert Koffler Jarvik, From Midland, Michigan, Syracuse University alumni, Cardiologist, Jarvik-7, Robert Kiffler Jarvik…inventor
Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 11 May 1946) is an American scientist known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
Clive Sinclair

Clive Sinclair

male, 69 years old
ZX Spectrum, Old Cholmeleian, computer pioneer, ZX80, ZX81, Practical Wireless…inventor
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is a well-known British entrepreneur and inventor of the world's first 'slim-line' electronic pocket calculator in 1972...
Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando

male, deceased (2007)
Chinese in Japan, Order of the Rising Sun recipient, Ritsumeikan University, inventor, ministry of health, ikeda
(March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was the Taiwanese Japanese founder and chairman of Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd., and the inventor of world's fi...
John Napier

John Napier

male, deceased (1617)
craters of the Moon named after them, gout, From Edinburgh, Laird, Alumni of the University of St Andrews, Christian…inventor
John Napier of Merchistoun (1550 - 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchistoun, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer/astrologer...
John Bardeen

John Bardeen

male, deceased (1991)
1908-1991, Erdős number 5, National Medal of Science recipient, Nobel laureate in Physics, Semiconductor physicist, American electrical engineer…inventor
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the...