swap_horiz Ching W. Tang Alternatives

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Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain was a physicist instrumental in developing early semiconductor technology. His collaboration with...

Semiconductor 20TH Century Electronics Transistor

9.3 Excellent

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong was a pioneering 20th-century electrical engineer whose innovations fundamentally reshaped wirele...

Wireless Broadcast 20TH Century Electronics

9.3 Excellent

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James L. Fergason

James L. Fergason was an American inventor instrumental in the development of practical twisted nematic liquid crystal d...

American 20TH Century LCD Display Materials

9.2 Excellent

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Lee De Forest

Lee De Forest was an American inventor instrumental in shaping 20th-century electronics. His development of the Audion t...

American Radio 20TH Century Electronics

8.9 Great

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Robert Moog

Robert Moog developed pioneering electronic musical instruments beginning in the mid-20th century. His innovations cente...

Music American 20TH Century Synthesizer

8.7 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

8.7 Great

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Vladimir K. Zworykin

Vladimir K. Zworykin was a pioneering 20th-century electrical engineer instrumental in developing early television techn...

Television Video 20TH Century Electronics

8.7 Great

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Leo Baekeland

Leo Baekeland was a 20th-century chemist recognized for developing Bakelite, the world’s first wholly synthetic plastic....

20TH Century Plastic Materials Bakelite

8.5 Great

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James West

James West was an American acoustician who co-invented the foil electret microphone at Bell Labs in 1962, now common in...

Audio 20TH Century Electronics Bell Labs

8.5 Great

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George de Mestral

Swiss engineer who invented Velcro in 1955, inspired by noticing how burdock burrs clung to his clothing and his dog's f...

Swiss 20TH Century Fastener Materials

8.4 Great

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Patsy Sherman

American chemist Patsy Sherman co-invented Scotchgard, a fluorochemical stain- and water-repellent fabric protector, at...

American 20TH Century 3M Materials

8.4 Great

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Harold Stephen Black

Harold Stephen Black was an American Bell Labs engineer who invented the negative-feedback amplifier in 1927, stabilizin...

Feedback 20TH Century Amplifier Telecom

8.4 Great

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Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer who created the first practical visible-spectrum LED at General Electric in 1...

Semiconductor 20TH Century LED Lighting

8.4 Great

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Robert W. Gore

Robert W. Gore was an American engineer who discovered expanded PTFE in 1969, the porous material behind Gore-Tex fabric...

20TH Century Membrane Fabric Gore Tex

8.3 Great

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William Hewlett

William Hewlett was an American engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939 and designed the HP 200A audio oscillato...

20TH Century Test Equipment Hp Electronics

8.1 Great

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Robert N. Hall

Robert N. Hall was an American physicist whose 1962 semiconductor injection laser at General Electric helped make compac...

20TH Century Ge Electronics Magnetron

8.1 Great

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Edith M. Flanigen

Edith M. Flanigen was an American chemist who invented molecular sieve zeolite Y at Union Carbide in 1956, important in...

Chemistry 20TH Century Materials Zeolite

8.1 Great

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Frank Wanlass

Frank Wanlass was an American microelectronics engineer who invented CMOS logic in 1963, enabling low-power integrated c...

CMOS Semiconductor 20TH Century Low Power

8.1 Great

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Harry Brearley

Harry Brearley was an English metallurgist credited with developing stainless steel in Sheffield in 1913 while seeking e...

20TH Century Stainless Steel British Materials

7.9 Good

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Roy J. Plunkett

Roy J. Plunkett was an American DuPont chemist who accidentally discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, later sold as Teflon...

20TH Century Materials Dupont Teflon

7.9 Good