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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who worked with Charles Townes on extending maser principles to optica...

American Optics 20TH Century Laser

9.1 Excellent

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Edwin Armstrong

Edwin Armstrong was an American electrical engineer pivotal to 20th-century broadcasting technology. His development of...

American 20TH Century Broadcasting Electronics

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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Charles Ginsburg

Charles Ginsburg was an American engineer who led the Ampex research team that developed the first practical videotape r...

American 20TH Century Broadcasting Electronics

8.8 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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Charles Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer whose work helped engineers a...

Engineering Electricity AC Power 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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William D. Coolidge

William D. Coolidge was an American physicist, engineer, and inventor whose work at General Electric improved both elect...

20TH Century Medical Ge X Ray

8.5 Great

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James West

James E. West is an American acoustical scientist and inventor who co-developed the foil electret microphone with Gerhar...

Audio 20TH Century Electronics Bell Labs

8.5 Great

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Gerhard Sessler

Gerhard Sessler is a German physicist and inventor who, together with James E. West, developed the electret condenser mi...

Audio German 20TH Century Electronics

8.5 Great

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Robert Adler

Robert Adler was an Austrian-American electrical engineer and inventor who co-created Zenith's Space Command television...

Television 20TH Century Electronics Austrian American

8.5 Great

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Harold Stephen Black

Harold Stephen Black (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1927 he conceive...

Feedback 20TH Century Amplifier Telecom

8.4 Great

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Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American electrical engineer and professor who significantly advanced semiconductor technology...

Semiconductor 20TH Century LED Lighting

8.4 Great

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Ching W. Tang

Ching W. Tang is a Hong Kong-born American physical chemist and inventor widely recognized for his foundational contribu...

Display OLED 20TH Century Electronics

8.3 Great

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Samuel Ruben

Samuel Ruben was an American inventor associated with the development of the mercury battery and with the battery busine...

American 20TH Century Electronics Alkaline Battery

8.3 Great

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Frank Wanlass

Frank Wanlass was an American electrical engineer whose work contributed to the development of modern semiconductor elec...

CMOS Semiconductor 20TH Century Low Power

8.1 Great

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Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877-1956) was an American engineer and inventor associated with the development of early ra...

American Radio 20TH Century Electronics

8.1 Great