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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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Mohamed M. Atalla

Mohamed M. Atalla was a pioneering electrical engineer whose work fundamentally advanced semiconductor technology. He is...

Security Semiconductor 20TH Century Mosfet

9.1 Excellent

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Dawon Kahng

Dawon Kahng is an electrical engineer recognized for his pivotal role in developing the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-...

Semiconductor 20TH Century Transistor Bell Labs

9.0 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 H. Dennard

Robert H. Dennard, an IBM engineer, developed the fundamental architecture for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in 19...

Semiconductor 20TH Century Ibm Memory

8.9 Great

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Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano was a Japanese engineer whose pioneering work fundamentally advanced semiconductor technology. He achieved...

Semiconductor Japanese 20TH Century LED

8.7 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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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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Nick Holonyak Jr.

Nick Holonyak Jr. is an American inventor recognized for his pivotal role in developing practical light-emitting diodes...

American Semiconductor 20TH Century LED

8.6 Great

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Jean Hoerni

Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist whose 1959 planar process made reliable silicon integrated circuits practical at...

Swiss Semiconductor 20TH Century Planar Process

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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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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Ching W. Tang

Ching W. Tang is a Hong Kong-born American chemist who demonstrated a practical organic LED in 1987 while working at Eas...

Display OLED 20TH Century Electronics

8.3 Great

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Carver Mead

Carver Mead is an American microelectronics pioneer who helped develop VLSI design methods and advanced neuromorphic eng...

Semiconductor 20TH Century Computing Vlsi

8.2 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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Bill Lear

Bill Lear was an American inventor and entrepreneur who founded Learjet and introduced the Learjet 23 in 1963, helping p...

20TH Century Aviation Electronics Car Radio

7.8 Good

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Otis Boykin

Otis Boykin was an American engineer whose resistor and control-device patents were used in computers, guided missiles,...

American 20TH Century Pacemaker Electronics

7.7 Good