Percy Spencer

Percy Spencer

male, deceased (1970)
Percy Lebaron Spencer was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven. Spencer was born in Howland,...

Paul Neill

male
Paul Neill was an engineer at Bell Labs in the 1940s and 1950s. He is credited with helping to invent the BNC, TNC and Type N connectors used for...
Vinnie Johnson

Vinnie Johnson

male, 53 years old
Vincent "Vinnie" Johnson (born September 1 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American former professional basketball player and a key player on the...
Simon Ramo

Simon Ramo

male, 96 years old
Simon Ramo (born May 13, 1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and...
Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon

male, deceased (1984)
Richard Deacon, born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor. He was a bald-pated and usually bespectacled character...
Laura Mersini

Laura Mersini

female
Dr. Laura Mersini is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since January 2004. She...
Giuseppe Cocconi

Giuseppe Cocconi

male
Giuseppe Cocconi (born 1914) is a physicist who first proposed searching microwave signals for interstellar communication.
W. W. Hansen

W. W. Hansen

male, deceased (1949)
William Webster Hansen was a U.S. physicist who was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. Hansen's father was a hardware...
Jagdish Chandra Bose

Jagdish Chandra Bose

male, deceased (1937)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 - November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist from undivided India, who pioneered the investigation of...
Peter A. Sturrock

Peter A. Sturrock

male, 85 years old
Peter Andrew Sturrock (born 1924) is a British scientist. Much of his career has been devoted to astrophysics, plasma physics, and solar physics,...