Editing List of electrical engineers

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This is a '''list of [[electrical engineer]]s''' (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to [[electrical engineering]] or [[computer engineering]].

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! Name !! Contribution(s)
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!'''A'''
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| [[Norman Abramson]] || [[ALOHAnet]] network communication
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| [[Robert Campbell Aitken]] || Testing and diagnosis of [[integrated circuits]]
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|[[Luigi Amerio]]
|[[Laplace transform]]s
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| [[Edwin Armstrong]] || Radio, Regenerative circuit, superheterodyne receiver, frequency modulation (FM)
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| [[Maria Artini]] || First female university graduate in electrical engineering in Italy (1918)
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| [[Rodney Atkins (engineer)|Rodney Adkins]]|| First African American to serve as a senior vice president at IBM, worked on IBM ThinkPad.
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| [[Hertha Marks Ayrton]] || Electric arc lighting, [[Hughes Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]]
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|[[William Edward Ayrton]] 
|Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight
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!B
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| [[John Bardeen]] || Two [[Nobel Prize]]s: [[transistor]], [[superconductivity]]
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| [[Emile Baudot]] || Telegraphy communications
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|[[Andy Bechtolsheim]]
|Co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]]
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|[[Arnold Orville Beckman]]
|pH meter, [[Beckman Instruments]], [[Silicon Valley]] pioneer
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|[[Alexander Graham Bell]]
|[[Bell Telephone Company]]
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|[[Alfred Rosling Bennett]]
|Pioneer of electric lighting and telephones
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| [[Harold Stephen Black]] || Negative feedback amplifier
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| [[Ottó Bláthy]] || Pioneering electrical engineer
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|[[André Blondel]]
|Oscillography, electrical machine theory
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|[[Alan Blumlein]]
|Inventions in [[telecommunications]], [[sound recording]], [[stereophonic sound|stereo]], [[television]], [[radar]]
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| [[Hendrik Wade Bode]] || Control theory, [[Bode plot]]
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| [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] || Computer chess, expert system AI
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| [[Paul Boucherot]] ||[[Reactive power]]
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| [[Karlheinz Brandenburg]] || Audio compression scheme [[MP3]]
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|[[Charles Tilston Bright]]
|[[Transatlantic telegraph cable]]
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| [[Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown]] || Co-founder of [[Brown, Boveri & Cie]]
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| [[William C. Brown]] || Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission
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| [[Walter Bruch]] || Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system
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| [[Charles Brush]] || Efficient [[dynamo]], electric lighting, a founder of [[General Electric]], [[wind power]]
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| [[James Buie]] || Inventor of [[Transistor transistor logic|TTL Logic]]
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| [[Charles Frederick Burgess]] || Battery technology development, pioneer of [[electrochemical engineering]]
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!C
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| [[Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton]] || Theory of television
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| [[Marvin Camras]]|| Magnetic recording
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| [[John Renshaw Carson]] || [[Single-sideband modulation]]
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| [[James Kilton Clapp]] || [[Clapp oscillator]], [[General Radio Corporation]]
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| [[Edith Clarke]] || First American female professor of EE, author of ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''
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| [[Lynn Conway]]|| Very large scale integrated circuit design, [[Mead and Conway revolution]]
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|[[William David Coolidge|William Coolidge]]
|[[X-ray]] technology
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|[[William Corin]]
|[[Snowy Mountains Scheme]]
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| [[Seymour Cray]] || [[Supercomputer]] architect
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| [[Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton]] || Electric lighting, FRS, [[Crompton Parkinson|Crompton & Company]], Major in the U.K. Army
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!D
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| [[Sidney Darlington]] || [[Darlington transistor]]
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| [[Lee de Forest]] || Audion [[vacuum tube]]
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| [[Jack Dennis]]|| [[Time sharing]], [[Multics]]
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| [[Robert Dennard]] || [[Dynamic random-access memory]]
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| [[Marcel Deprez]] || [[HVDC]] power transmission pioneer
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|[[Bern Dibner]]
|Founder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the [[Transatlantic telegraph cable]]
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| [[Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky]] || Inventor of three-phase motor
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| [[Ray Dolby]] || Dolby sound
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| [[William Duddell]] || Oscillography, the singing [[arc lamp]]
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| [[Allen DuMont]] || Television manufacturing pioneer 
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!E
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| [[John Presper Eckert]] || Computer pioneer 
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| [[Thomas Edison]] || Prolific inventor: [[phonograph]], first practical [[Incandescent light bulb|light bulb]], [[telegraph]] improvements
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| [[Cyril Frank Elwell]] || Continuous Wave radio transmission, AM radio, founder of [[Federal Telegraph Company]]
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| [[Douglas Engelbart]] || Computer mouse, hypertext
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|[[Gertrude Lilian Entwisle]]
|First woman student member of [[Institution of Electrical Engineers]] first female engineer at [[British Westinghouse]].
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| [[Justus Entz]]|| Electric transmission, electric vehicles, worked with Edison
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|[[Agner Krarup Erlang]]
|Communications and Queueing
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| [[Lloyd Espenschied]] || Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology.
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!F
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| [[Federico Faggin]] || [[Intel]] [[microprocessor]], [[Zilog]] [[z80]]
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| [[Michael Faraday]] || Discovered [[electromagnetic induction]] and [[Faraday shield]]
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| [[Moses Farmer]] || Electric railway 
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| [[Philo Farnsworth]] || American television pioneer
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| [[Galileo Ferraris]] || Rotating magnetic field
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| [[Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti]] || [[Ferranti]] Corporation
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| [[Reginald Fessenden]] || 'Father' of radio broadcasting
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| [[Donald Fink]] || Radio navigation [[LORAN]], [[NTSC|television standards]], author and editor 
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| [[Gerhard Fischer (inventor)|Gerhard Fischer]] || Handheld [[metal detector]]
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| [[John Ambrose Fleming]] || Inventor of the thermionic valve ([[vacuum tube]])
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| [[Tommy Flowers]] || Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer
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| [[Jay Forrester]] || American computer pioneer
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| [[Charles Legeyt Fortescue]] || [[Symmetrical components]] for three-phase power system analysis
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| [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]] || Physicist; [[Fourier transform]] / [[Fourier series]]
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|[[Limor Fried]]
|Founder of [[Adafruit Industries]], open source hardware advocate
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|[[Leonard Fuller]]
|Radio pioneer, [[carrier current]] on power systems
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!G
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| [[Dennis Gabor]] || Hungarian inventor of [[holography]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
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| [[Claire Gmachl]] || Advanced development of [[quantum cascade lasers]]
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| [[Bernhard Goldenberg]] || Responsible for the rapid expansion of [[electrification]] in the Rhineland and Ruhr area
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| [[James Edward Henry Gordon]] (J.E.H. Gordon) || Electric lighting and power
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| [[Zénobe Gramme]] || Dynamo
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| [[Elisha Gray]] || Telephone pioneer
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| [[Richard Grimsdale]] || Transistorized computers
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!H
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| [[Susan Hackwood]] || Co-inventor of [[electro-wetting]]
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|[[Erna Hamburger]] 
|Swiss electrical engineer working in radio-wave research. First female STEM professor in Switzerland.
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| [[Edward E. Hammer]] || Spiral [[compact fluorescent lamp]]
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| [[Naomi Halas]] || Nanophotonics 
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| [[Roger F. Harrington]] || Computational electromagnetics, [[Method of moments (electromagnetics)|method of moments]] (MoM)
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| [[Ralph Hartley]] || Electronics
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| [[Caroline Haslett]] || Founder of ''The Woman Engineer''
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| [[Oliver Heaviside]] || Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus)
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| [[Oskar Heil]] || Field-effect transistor, loudspeaker
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| [[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz]] || [[radio|Hertzian waves]]
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| [[Peter Cooper Hewitt]] || Mercury vapor lamp, [[mercury arc rectifier]] 
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| [[William Reddington Hewlett|William Hewlett]] || [[Hewlett-Packard]]
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|[[Hugo Hirst]]
|Co-founder of [[General Electric Company]]
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| [[Godfrey Hounsfield]] || Inventor of the world's first [[computed tomography]] (CT) scanner, shared 1979 [[Nobel Prize]]
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| [[Edwin J. Houston]]|| Arc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of [[American Institute of Electrical Engineers|AIEE]]
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| [[John Hopkinson]] || Inventor of three-phase electrical system
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| [[Grace Hopper]] || Computer programmer (first compiler)
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| [[Lawrence A. Hyland]] || [[Radar]] pioneer, leader of [[Hughes Aircraft]]
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| [[Kees Schouhamer Immink]] || Pioneer optical recording, [[CD]], [[DVD]], [[Blu-ray Disc]] 
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| [[Fleeming Jenkin]] || Submarine telegraph cables
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| [[Kristina Johnson]] || Polarization-control techniques
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| [[Paul Horowitz]] || [[SETI]], co-author of ''[[The Art of Electronics]]''
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|[[Mina Hsiang]]
|Third Administrator of the United States Digital Service, Executive Office of the President of the United States
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!I
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| [[Samuel Insull]] || Central station generation, electrical utilities, [[Edison Pioneer|Edison pioneer]]
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!J
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|[[Bill Joy]]
|[[Unix]] - [[Sun Microsystems]]
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!K
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| [[Rudolf Kálmán]] || Inventor of the [[Kalman filter]]
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| [[Kálmán Kandó]] || Pioneer of high voltage [[railway electrification system]]s
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| [[Nathaniel S. Keith]] || Founding secretary of [[AIEE]]; electric power
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|[[Arthur E. Kennelly]] || Complex numbers in AC circuit theory
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| [[Charles Kettering]] || Automobile electrical innovations, [[Delco Electronics|Delco]] founder
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| [[Jack Kilby]] || Nobel Prize: [[integrated circuit]]
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| [[Max Knoll]] || [[Electron microscope]]
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|[[Otto A. Knopp]]
|Innovator of the standard testing transformer and the compensation winding.
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| [[John D. Kraus]] || Radio telescope, antennas 
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| [[Herbert Kroemer]] || [[Heterostructure]]s and [[semiconductor]] physics
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!L
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| [[Eric Laithwaite]] || [[Linear induction motor]]
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| [[Uno Lamm]] || Swedish, [[HVDC]] and [[mercury-arc valve]]s
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|[[Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha]]
|India’s first female electrical engineer
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|[[Benjamin G. Lamme]] 
|[[Niagara Falls]] power engineering
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|[[Bertha Lamme Feicht|Bertha Lamme]]
|[[Westinghouse Electric (1886)|Westinghouse]]'s first female engineer, first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering
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| [[Georges Leclanché]] || Primary [[Battery (electricity)|battery]]
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| [[Morris E. Leeds]] || [[Leeds & Northrup]] measurement and control devices
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| [[Alexander Lodygin]] || Russian, incandescent lighting, motors
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!M
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| [[Östen Mäkitalo]] || 'Father' of cellular phone
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| [[Guglielmo Marconi]] || Practical radio
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| [[Orlando R. Marsh]] || Electrical sound recording
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| [[Erwin Otto Marx]] || [[Marx generator]] high voltage DC
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|[[Mabel Lucy Matthews]]
|British electrical and production engineer, instigator of idea for the [[Electrical Association for Women]]
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| [[John Mauchly]] || [[ENIAC]] designer
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| [[Florence Violet McKenzie]] || Australia's first female EE, educator, [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
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| [[Charles Hesterman Merz]] || [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Company|NESCO]] electric power grid, England
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| [[William Henry Merrill]] || Founder of [[Underwriters Laboratories]]
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| [[Robert Metcalfe]] || [[Ethernet]], [[3Com]]
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|[[Antonio Meucci]]
|Telephone pioneer
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| [[John L. Moll]] || Solid-state physics, the [[Ebers-Moll]] transistor model
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| [[Robert Moog]] || Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer
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| [[Daniel McFarlan Moore]] || [[Fluorescent lamp|Electrical discharge lighting]]
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!N
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| [[Shuji Nakamura]] || Blue [[gallium nitride|gallium-nitride]] [[light-emitting diode]]
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| [[Thyagarajan Nandagopal]] || Wireless network optimization, RFID systems, and network architectures
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| [[Edward Lawry Norton]] || [[Norton's theorem]]
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| [[Robert Noyce]] || Co-founder of [[Fairchild Semiconductor]] and [[Intel]]
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| [[Nikhilesh Chandrashekar]] || [[Chandashekar's phenomenon]] 
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!O
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| [[Bernard M. Oliver|Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver]]
| [[Hewlett-Packard]], founder HP Labs
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| [[Kenneth Olsen]] || [[Magnetic-core memory]]; [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
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| [[Stanford R. Ovshinsky]] || Semiconductors
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!P
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| [[David Packard]] || [[Hewlett-Packard]]
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| [[Konstantinos Papathanassiou]] || Polarimetric interferometry for synthetic aperture radar
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| [[Robert H. Park]] || [[Park's transformation]]
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|[[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 Organization|International Labour Organisation]] convention on night work for women in 1934
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|[[R. Fabian Pease]]
|Professor at [[Stanford University]]
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| [[Donald Pederson]] || 'Father' of [[SPICE]]
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| [[Serge Pelissou]] || Characterize extruded cables and components in their life cycles
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| [[Dinh Thuy Phan Huy]] || Wireless 5G research in Europe
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| [[G. W. Pierce]] || Oscillator, crystal control
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| [[William Henry Preece]] || Telegraphy, nemesis of [[oliver Heaviside|Heaviside]] 
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| [[Franklin Leonard Pope]] || Telegraphy, electric lighting, Edison influence
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| [[Valdemar Poulsen]] || Magnetic recording
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| [[Michael I. Pupin]] || Long-distance telephone communication; "Pupin coil"
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!R
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| [[Simon Ramo]] || Physicist, microwaves, missiles, founder of [[TRW Inc.|TRW]] and [[Bunker Ramo Corporation]]
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| [[Elliot Rappaport]] || Grounding in industrial and commercial power systems
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| [[Richard H. Ranger]] || Wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording
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| [[Alec Reeves]]
| Inventor of pulse code modulation
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| [[Johann Philipp Reis]] || Inventor of the [[Reis telephone]]
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| [[Stephen Renals]] || Speech recognition technology
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| [[Hyman G. Rickover]] || 'Father' of the nuclear Navy
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| [[Mabel MacFerran Rockwell]] || Only woman to work on the electrical systems of Hoover Dam' pioneer in aeronautical electronics
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| [[Edward S. Rogers, Sr.]] || Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube
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| [[Francis Ronalds]] || Built first working [[Electrical telegraph|electric telegraph]]
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| [[Arye Rosen]] || Semiconductor devices and circuits for use in microwave systems and for microwave applications to medicine
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| [[Harold Rosen (electrical engineer)|Harold Rosen]] || [[Syncom]] communication satellite
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| [[H. J. Round]] || Radio pioneer and assistant to [[Guglielmo Marconi]]
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| [[Reinhold Rudenberg]] || [[Electron microscope]]
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!S
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| [[Philip Schniter]] || Signal processing in communications
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| [[Carl Louis Schwendler]] || Electric lighting and telegraph
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| [[Thomas Johann Seebeck]] || [[Thermoelectric effect]]
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| [[Oliver B. Shallenberger]] || AC [[electricity meter]]s
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| [[Claude Shannon]] || 'Father' of communication theory
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| [[Ernst Werner von Siemens]] || Inventor, industrialist, [[Siemens & Halske]], [[Siemens (unit)]]
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| [[Carl Wilhelm Siemens]] || Telegraphy, motors and generators, electric pyrometer
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| [[Alexander Siemens]] || Electric lighting, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor to [[Institution of Electrical Engineers|IEE]])
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| [[Phillip Hagar Smith]] || [[Smith chart]]
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| [[Haruhisa Soda]] || Vertical-cavity surface-emitting and distributed-feedback lasers
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| [[Mehmet Soyuer]] || Design of high-frequency integrated circuits
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| [[Percy Spencer]] || [[Microwave oven]]
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| [[Frank J. Sprague]] || 'Father' of electric traction
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| [[Chauncey Starr]] || Founder of [[Electric Power Research Institute]]
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| [[J. J. Stiffler]] || Key contributions in communications (especially [[coding theory]]) and [[fault-tolerant computing]] 
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| [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] || [[Alternating current]] theories, first use of j [[rotation (mathematics)|operator]]
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| [[Senichi Suzuki]] || High-density integrated silica-based planar lightwave circuits
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!T
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| [[Sarkes Tarzian]] || Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer
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|[[Albert H. Taylor]]
|First demonstration of [[radar]]
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|[[Bernard D. H. Tellegen]]
|Inventor of the [[pentode]], formulated [[Tellegen's theorem]]
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| [[Nikola Tesla]] || Revolving magnetic field [[induction motor]], [[Tesla coil]], polyphase transmission systems, transformer
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| [[Silvanus P. Thompson]] || Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-ray technology, radio
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| [[Elihu Thomson]] || Entrepreneur, co-founder of what would become [[General Electric]]
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| [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]] (Lord Kelvin) || Telegraphic cables
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|[[René Thury]] || [[High-voltage direct current]] power transmission, electric traction
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| [[Kálmán Tihanyi]] || Television pioneer
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| [[Philip Torchio]] || Edison Electric Company
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!V
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| [[Charles Joseph Van Depoele]] || Electric railway pioneer
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| [[C. F. Varley]] || Submarine cable, Varley bridge
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| [[Milan Vidmar]] || Power transformers and high-voltage transmission
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| [[Mahesh Viswanathan]]
|Cloud computing and vehicular speech communications
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|[[Andrew Viterbi]]
|Communications
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|[[Alessandro Volta]]
|Inventor of electrical battery and pioneer of electrical science
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!W
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| [[Trevor Wadley]] || Innovations in radio and microwave technology
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| [[Pengjun Wan]] || Scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks
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| [[Harry Ward Leonard]] || Inventor of the [[Ward Leonard control]] system
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| [[Robert Watson-Watt]] || First practical [[radar]]
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| [[George Westinghouse]] || AC power industrialist
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| [[Harold Alden Wheeler]] || [[Automatic gain control|Automatic volume control]], [[radar]]
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| [[Uncas A. Whitaker]] || Founder of [[Tyco Electronics|AMP Inc.]] and [[Whitaker Foundation|philanthropist]]
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| [[Bob Widlar]] || [[Integrated circuit]]s
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| [[Niklaus Wirth]] || Computer [[programming language]]s
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| [[Feng Wu]] || Visual data compression and communication
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| [[Steve Wozniak]] || Personal computers, [[Apple Computer]]
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!Y
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| [[Pavel Yablochkov]] || Electric arc lighting
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|[[Hidetsugu Yagi]]
|[[Yagi antenna|Yagi-Uda]] [[antenna (radio)|antenna]]
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| [[Kane S. Yee]] || [[Finite-difference time-domain method]]
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!Z
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| [[Otto Julius Zobel]] || Filters
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|[[Konrad Zuse]]
|Computers
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==See also==
* [[List of engineers]] - for lists of [[engineer]]s from other [[discipline]]s
* [[List of Russian electrical engineers]]

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