Electrical Engineers
26 profiles
Technology
Steven Sasson
Kodak engineer who built the first digital camera
Born 1950
Science
Charles K. Kao
“Godfather of broadband” who showed glass fibres could carry light over long distances
1933 – 2018
Science
Lynn Conway
Computer architect who co-led the VLSI chip-design revolution and championed transgender rights
1938 – 2024
Technology
Lisa Su
CEO of AMD who led one of the great turnarounds in the chip industry
Born 1969
Technology
Lee de Forest
Inventor of the Audion triode vacuum tube
1873 – 1961
Technology
Kimberly Bryant
Engineer who founded Black Girls Code
Born 1967
Science
John Bardeen
Only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice — for the transistor and superconductivity
1908 – 1991
Technology
Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the AI boom
Born 1963
Technology
Ted Hoff
Intel engineer who conceived the architecture of the first microprocessor
Born 1937
Technology
Steve Wozniak
Engineer who designed the Apple I and Apple II and co-founded Apple
Born 1950
Science
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor of the alternating-current induction motor
1856 – 1943
Technology
Morris Chang
Founder of TSMC and creator of the chip-foundry business model
Born 1931
Technology
Jay Miner
Chip designer known as the father of the Amiga
1932 – 1994
Science
Jacob Ziv
Israeli engineer who co-invented the Lempel–Ziv compression algorithms
1931 – 2023
Science
Jack Kilby
Texas Instruments engineer who invented the integrated circuit
1923 – 2005
Science
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor who pioneered long-distance radio and won the Nobel Prize
1874 – 1937
Technology
Gordon Bell
DEC engineer who designed the PDP minicomputers and the VAX
1934 – 2024
Technology
Edwin Howard Armstrong
Inventor of FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver
1890 – 1954
Technology
Dov Frohman
Inventor of EPROM memory and founder of Intel Israel
Born 1939
Curtis Priem
Engineer who co-founded Nvidia and designed its first chips
Science
Claude Shannon
Father of information theory and the digital age
1916 – 2001
Technology
Chuck Peddle
Engineer who designed the 6502 microprocessor and the Commodore PET
1937 – 2019
Technology
Chris Malachowsky
Engineer who co-founded Nvidia
Born 1959
Science
Carver Mead
Caltech engineer who revolutionised chip design and coined “Moore’s law”
Born 1934