List of electrical engineers

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This is a list of electrical engineers, people who made contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.

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Who	Contribution(s)
Edwin Armstrong	Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM)
John Bardeen	Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity
Emile Baudot	Communications
Alexander Graham Bell	Bell telephone company
Ottó Bláthy	Pioneering electrical engineer
Alan Blumlein	Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar
Karlheinz Brandenburg	Audio compression scheme MP3
Walter Bruch	Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system
William Coolidge	X-rays
Seymour Cray	Supercomputer architect
Lee DeForest	Audion vacuum tube
Georges de Mestral	Velcro
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky	Inventor of Three-phase motor
Ray Dolby	Dolby sound
J. Presper Eckert	Computer pioneer
Thomas Edison	Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements
A. K. Erlang	Communications and Queueing
Lloyd Espenschied	Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology.
Michael Faraday	Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield
Philo T. Farnsworth	American television pioneer
Galileo Ferraris	Rotating magnetic field
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti	Ferranti Corporation
Reginald Fessenden	"Father of Radio Broadcasting"
Gerhard Fischer	Handheld metal detector
John Ambrose Fleming	Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube)
Thomas Flowers	Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer
Jay Forrester	American computer pioneer
Charles Legeyt Fortescue	Canadian - symmetrical components for three-phase power system analysis
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Physicist; Fourier transform / Fourier series
Dennis Gabor	Hungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Laureate
Ralph Hartley	Electronics
Oliver Heaviside	Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	Hertzian Waves
Peter Cooper Hewitt	Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier
William Hewlett	Hewlett-Packard
Godfrey Hounsfield	Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner
John Hopkinson	Inventor of Three-phase electrical system
Grace Hopper	Computer programmer (first compiler)
Lawrence A. Hyland	Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft
Kees Schouhamer Immink	Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc
Bill Joy	Unix - Sun Microsystems
Rudolf Kalman	Inventor of the Kalman filter
Charles Kettering	Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder
Jack Kilby	Nobel prize: Integrated circuit
Herbert Kroemer	Heterostructures and semiconductor physics
Eric Laithwaite	Linear induction motor
Hedy Lamarr	Communications
Uno Lamm	Swedish, HVDC and mercury arc valves
Guglielmo Marconi	Practical radio
John Mauchly	ENIAC designer
Charles Hesterman Merz	NESCO Electric power grid, England
Robert Moog	Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer
Arthur Nielsen	Nielsen ratings developer
Robert Noyce	Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver	Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs
Kenneth Olsen	Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation
Donald Pederson	Father of SPICE
David Packard	Hewlett-Packard
Valdemar Poulsen	Magnetic recording
Michael I. Pupin	Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil"
Alec Reeves	Inventor of pulse code modulation
Hyman G. Rickover	"Father of the Nuclear Navy"
Edward S. Rogers, Sr.	Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube
H. J. Round	Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Johann Seebeck	Thermoelectric effect
Claude Shannon	"Father of Communication Theory"
Percy Spencer	Microwave oven
Frank J. Sprague	"Father of Electric Traction"
Charles Proteus Steinmetz	Alternating current theories
Sarkes Tarzian	Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer
Albert H. Taylor	First demonstration of radar
Nikola Tesla	Revolving magnetic field electric motor, Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer
Elihu Thomson	Entrepreneur
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)	Telegraphic cables
Milan Vidmar	Power transformers and transmission of electric current
Andrew Viterbi	Communications
Trevor Wadley	Innovations in radio and microwave technology
Harry Ward Leonard	Inventor of the Ward Leonard control system.
Robert Watson-Watt	First practical radar
George Westinghouse	AC power industrialist
Niklaus Wirth	Computer programming languages
Steve Wozniak	Personal computers; Apple Computer
Konrad Zuse	Computers