George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse

male, deceased (1914)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846-12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a...
Betty Furness

Betty Furness

female, deceased (1994)
Elizabeth Mary Furness, better known as Betty Furness (born January 3, 1916; died April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate and...
Mel Karmazin

Mel Karmazin

male, deceased (1943) (New York, New York, United States)
Mel Karmazin is Chief Executive Officer of SIRIUS XM Radio, America's satellite radio company delivering the "The Best Radio on Radio" to more than...
Laurence Tisch

Laurence Tisch

male, deceased (2003)
Laurence Alan Tisch (born March 5 1923, died November 15 2003) was a Wall Street investor and self-made billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS...
Lucien Gaulard

Lucien Gaulard

male, deceased (1888)
Lucien Gaulard (1850 - November 26, 1888) invented devices for the transmission of alternating current electrical energy. Gaulard was born in...
Harold P. Brown

Harold P. Brown

male
Harold Pitney Brown was the American inventor of the electric chair. He was hired by Thomas Edison to help develop the chair after he wrote an...
John Hart

John Hart

male
John Hart (born February 1, 1932, Denver, Colorado) is a retired television journalist who worked for several different television networks during...
Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow

male, 60 years old
Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is host of Talk Of The Nation: Science Friday....
Heinrich Welker

Heinrich Welker

male, deceased (1981)
Heinrich Johann Welker (September 9, 1912 in Ingolstadt, Germany - December 25, 1981 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German theoretical and applied...
Ernest J. Sternglass

Ernest J. Sternglass

male, 86 years old
Ernest Sternglass , Ph.D., is Director, Cofounder, President, and Chief Technical Officer of the Radiation and Public Health Project. In 1963, Dr....