List of electrical engineers
This is a list of electrical engineers (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
| Name | Contribution(s) |
|---|---|
| Otto A. Knopp | Innovator of the standard testing transformer and the compensation winding. |
| A. K. Erlang | Communications and Queueing |
| Alan Blumlein | Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar |
| Albert H. Taylor | First demonstration of radar |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Bell Telephone Company |
| Alec Reeves | Inventor of pulse code modulation |
| Alfred Rosling Bennett | Pioneer of electric lighting and telephones |
| Alessandro Volta | Inventor of electrical battery and pioneer of electrical science |
| André Blondel | Oscillography, electrical machine theory |
| Andrew Viterbi | Communications |
| Andy Bechtolsheim | Co-founder of Sun Microsystems |
| Arnold Orville Beckman | pH meter, Beckman Instruments, Silicon Valley pioneer |
| Antonio Meucci | Telephone pioneer |
| Hugo Hirst | Co-founder of General Electric Company plc |
| Benjamin G. Lamme | Niagara Falls power engineering |
| Bern Dibner | Founder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver | Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs |
| Bernard D. H. Tellegen | Inventor of the pentode, formulated Tellegen's theorem |
| Bill Joy | Unix - Sun Microsystems |
| Charles Tilston Bright | Transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown | Co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie |
| Edwin Armstrong | Radio, Regenerative circuit, superheterodyne receiver, frequency modulation (FM) |
| Maria Artini | First female university graduate in electrical engineering in Italy (1918) |
| Hertha Marks Ayrton | Electric arc lighting, Hughes Medal of the Royal Society |
| Hidetsugu Yagi | Yagi-Uda antenna |
| John Bardeen | Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity |
| Limor Fried | Founder of Adafruit Industries, open source hardware advocate |
| Leonard F. Fuller | Radio pioneer, carrier current on power systems |
| Luigi Amerio | Laplace transforms |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | Computer chess, expert system AI |
| Norman Abramson | ALOHAnet network communication |
| Robert Campbell Aitken | testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits |
| Emile Baudot | Telegraphy communications |
| Harold Stephen Black | Negative feedback amplifier |
| Ottó Bláthy | Pioneering electrical engineer |
| Hendrik Wade Bode | Control theory, Bode plot |
| Paul Boucherot | Reactive power |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | Audio compression scheme MP3 |
| William C. Brown | Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission |
| Walter Bruch | Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system |
| Charles F. Brush | Efficient dynamo, electric lighting, a founder of General Electric, wind power |
| James L. Buie | Inventor of TTL Logic |
| Charles Frederick Burgess | Battery technology development, pioneer of electrochemical engineering |
| Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton | Theory of television |
| Marvin Camras | Magnetic recording |
| John Renshaw Carson | Single-sideband modulation |
| James Kilton Clapp | Clapp oscillator, General Radio Corporation |
| Edith Clarke | First American female professor of EE, author of Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems |
| Lynn Conway | Very large scale integrated circuit design, Mead & Conway revolution |
| Seymour Cray | Supercomputer architect |
| R. E. B. Crompton | Electric lighting, FRS, Crompton &Co., Major in the U.K. Army |
| Sidney Darlington | Darlington transistor |
| Lee de Forest | Audion vacuum tube |
| Jack Dennis | Time sharing, Multics |
| Robert H. Dennard | Dynamic random-access memory |
| Marcel Deprez | HVDC power transmission pioneer |
| Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky | Inventor of three-phase motor |
| Ray Dolby | Dolby sound |
| William Duddell | Oscillography, the singing arc lamp |
| Allen B. DuMont | Television manufacturing pioneer |
| J. Presper Eckert | Computer pioneer |
| Thomas Edison | Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements |
| Cyril Frank Elwell | Continuous Wave radio transmission, AM radio, founder of Federal Telegraph Company |
| Douglas Engelbart | Computer mouse, hypertext |
| Justus B. Entz | Electric transmission,electric vehicles, worked with Edison |
| Lloyd Espenschied | Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology. |
| Federico Faggin | Intel microprocessor, Zilog z80 |
| Michael Faraday | Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield |
| Moses G. Farmer | Electric railway |
| Philo T. Farnsworth | American television pioneer |
| Galileo Ferraris | Rotating magnetic field |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | Ferranti Corporation |
| Reginald Fessenden | 'Father' of radio broadcasting |
| Donald G. Fink | Radio navigation LORAN, television standards, author and editor |
| 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 | 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 |
| Claire F. Gmachl | Advanced development of quantum cascade lasers |
| Bernhard Goldenberg | Responsible for the rapid expansion of electrification in the Rhineland and Ruhr area |
| James Edward Henry Gordon (J.E.H. Gordon) | Electric lighting and power |
| Zénobe Gramme | Dynamo |
| Elisha Gray | Telephone pioneer |
| Richard Grimsdale | Transistorized computers |
| Susan Hackwood | Co-inventor of electro-wetting |
| Edward E. Hammer | Spiral compact fluorescent lamp |
| Naomi Halas | Nanophotonics |
| Roger F. Harrington | Computational electromagnetics, method of moments (MoM) |
| Ralph Hartley | Electronics |
| Caroline Haslett | Founder of The Woman Engineer |
| Oliver Heaviside | Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus) |
| Oskar Heil | Field-effect transistor, loudspeaker |
| 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, shared 1979 Nobel prize |
| Edwin J. Houston | Arc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE |
| 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 |
| Konrad Zuse | Computers |
| Fleeming Jenkin | Submarine telegraph cables |
| Kristina M. Johnson | Polarization-control techniques |
| Paul Horowitz | SETI, co-author of The Art of Electronics |
| Samuel Insull | Central station generation, electrical utilities, Edison pioneer |
| Rudolf Kalman | Inventor of the Kalman filter |
| Kálmán Kandó | Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification systems |
| Nathaniel S. Keith | Founding secretary of AIEE; electric power |
| Arthur E. Kennelly | Complex numbers in AC circuit theory |
| Charles Kettering | Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder |
| Jack Kilby | Nobel prize: integrated circuit |
| Max Knoll | Electron microscope |
| John D. Kraus | Radio telescope, antennas |
| Herbert Kroemer | Heterostructures and semiconductor physics |
| Eric Laithwaite | Linear induction motor |
| Uno Lamm | Swedish, HVDC and mercury-arc valves |
| Georges Leclanché | Primary battery |
| Morris E. Leeds | Leeds & Northrup measurement and control devices |
| Alexander Lodygin | Russian, incandescent lighting, motors |
| Östen Mäkitalo | 'Father' of cellular phone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Practical radio |
| Orlando R. Marsh | Electrical sound recording |
| Erwin Otto Marx | Marx generator high voltage DC |
| Mabel Lucy Matthews | British electrical and production engineer, instigator of idea for the Electrical Association for Women. |
| John Mauchly | ENIAC designer |
| Florence Violet McKenzie | Australia's first female EE, educator, OBE |
| Charles Hesterman Merz | NESCO electric power grid, England |
| William Henry Merrill | Founder of Underwriters Laboratories |
| Robert Metcalfe | Ethernet, 3Com |
| John L. Moll | Solid-state physics, the Ebers-Moll transistor model |
| Robert Moog | Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer |
| Daniel McFarlan Moore | Electrical discharge lighting |
| Shuji Nakamura | Blue gallium-nitride light emitting diode |
| Edward Lawry Norton | Norton's theorem |
| Robert Noyce | Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel |
| Kenneth Olsen | Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Stanford R. Ovshinsky | Semiconductors |
| David Packard | Hewlett-Packard |
| Robert H. Park | Park's transformation |
| Margaret Partridge | Electrical engineer, contractor and founder member of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women (EAW). Helped change the International Labour Organisation convention on night work for women in 1934 |
| Donald Pederson | 'Father' of SPICE |
| G. W. Pierce | Oscillator, crystal control |
| William Henry Preece | Telegraphy, nemesis of Heaviside |
| Franklin Leonard Pope | Telegraphy, electric lighting, Edison influence |
| Valdemar Poulsen | Magnetic recording |
| Michael I. Pupin | Long-distance telephone communication; "Pupin coil" |
| Simon Ramo | Physicist, microwaves, missiles, founder of TRW and Bunker Ramo Corporation |
| Richard H. Ranger | Wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording |
| Johann Philipp Reis | Inventor of the Reis telephone |
| Hyman G. Rickover | 'Father' of the nuclear Navy |
| Edward S. Rogers, Sr. | Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube |
| Francis Ronalds | Built first working electric telegraph |
| Arye Rosen | Semiconductor devices and circuits for use in microwave systems and for microwave applications to medicine |
| Harold Rosen | Syncom communication satellite |
| H. J. Round | Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi |
| Reinhold Rudenberg | Electron microscope |
| Carl Louis Schwendler | Electric lighting and telegraph |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck | Thermoelectric effect |
| Oliver B. Shallenberger | AC electricity meters |
| Claude Shannon | 'Father' of communication theory |
| Ernst Werner von Siemens | Inventor, industrialist, Siemens & Halske, Siemens (unit) |
| Carl Wilhelm Siemens | Telegraphy, motors and generators, electric pyrometer |
| Alexander Siemens | Electric lighting, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor to IEE) |
| Phillip Hagar Smith | Smith chart |
| Percy Spencer | Microwave oven |
| Frank J. Sprague | 'Father' of electric traction |
| Chauncey Starr | Founder of Electric Power Research Institute |
| J. J. Stiffler | key contributions in communications (especially coding theory) and fault-tolerant computing |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Alternating current theories, first use of j operator |
| Sarkes Tarzian | Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer |
| Nikola Tesla | Revolving magnetic field induction motor, Tesla coil, polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
| Silvanus P. Thompson | Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-ray technology, radio |
| Elihu Thomson | Entrepreneur, co-founder of what would become General Electric |
| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | Telegraphic cables |
| René Thury | High-voltage direct current power transmission, electric traction |
| Kálmán Tihanyi | Television pioneer |
| Philip Torchio | Edison Electric Company |
| Charles Joseph Van Depoele | Electric railway pioneer |
| C. F. Varley | Submarine cable, Varley bridge |
| Milan Vidmar | Power transformers and high-voltage transmission |
| 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 |
| Harold Alden Wheeler | Automatic volume control, radar |
| Uncas A. Whitaker | Founder of AMP Inc. and philanthropist |
| Bob Widlar | Integrated circuits |
| Niklaus Wirth | Computer programming languages |
| Steve Wozniak | Personal computers, Apple Computer |
| Pavel Yablochkov | Electric arc lighting |
| Kane S. Yee | Finite-difference time-domain method |
| Otto Julius Zobel | Filters |
| William Coolidge | X-ray technology |
| William Corin | Snowy Mountains Scheme |
| William Edward Ayrton | Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight |
See also
- List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines
- List of Russian electrical engineers
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