swap_horiz Andrew Grove Alternatives

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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors whose work established a practical foundation for powered aviation. Th...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.61 Brilliant

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Bob Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American physicist, inventor, and businessman nicknamed 'the Mayor of Silicon Valley.' H...

American Silicon Valley 20TH Century Microchip

9.46 Excellent

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Ted Hoff

Ted Hoff is an American electrical engineer who, while working at Intel in 1971, collaborated with Federico Faggin and S...

American Intel Late 20TH Electronics

9.43 Excellent

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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao was an engineer and physicist whose research established the practical basis for transmitting information...

Optics 20TH Century Fiber Optics Communications

9.42 Excellent

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American inventor best known for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. His development of the movi...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.24 Excellent

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James Chadwick

James Chadwick was a British physicist who fundamentally advanced the field of nuclear physics by discovering the neutro...

Science 20TH Century British Nuclear Physics

9.24 Excellent

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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi was a Japanese video game designer and hardware inventor who worked for Nintendo from 1965 to 1996. He crea...

Entertainment Nintendo Video Game Japanese

9.22 Excellent

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J.C.R. Licklider

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who made significant contributions to...

American 20TH Century Computing Arpanet

9.21 Excellent

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Norman Woodland

Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor who co-created an early system for identifying products with machine-rea...

American Retail 20TH Century Barcode

9.19 Excellent

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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn was a pivotal American inventor instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His work with Vint...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.15 Excellent

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Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando was an entrepreneur and inventor born in Taiwan who became a Japanese citizen and founded Nissin Food Prod...

Food Consumer Japanese 20TH Century

9.14 Excellent

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev was a pivotal Soviet aerospace inventor responsible for pioneering rocket technology during the Cold War....

Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

9.12 Excellent

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John William Mauchly

John William Mauchly (1907–1980) was an American physicist who made significant contributions to the early history of el...

American 20TH Century Computing Eniac

9.12 Excellent

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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-created VisiCalc with Bob Frankston. VisiCalc wa...

Software American Spreadsheet 20TH Century

9.11 Excellent

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in shaping modern computing. His 1968 presen...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.10 Excellent

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Chuck Peddle

Charles Ingerham 'Chuck' Peddle (1937–2019) was an American electrical engineer best known for leading the team at MOS T...

American 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

9.08 Excellent

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Marcian Hoff

Marcian Hoff was an American engineer instrumental in the development of early computing technology. He proposed the cor...

American Intel 20TH Century Computing

8.65 Great

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Peter Carl Goldmark

Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977) was a Hungarian-born American engineer who worked at CBS Laboratories, where he led the...

Audio Television 20TH Century Hungarian American

8.14 Great

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Peter Goldmark

Peter Carl Goldmark was a Hungarian-American engineer who developed the 33 1/3 rpm long-playing (LP) phonograph record w...

Broadcast 20TH Century Hungarian American Color TV

8.14 Great

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Mária Telkes

Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American inventor renowned for her work integrating solar energy into building design durin...

20TH Century Solar Energy Materials Hungarian American

8.00 Great