Electrical engineers whose own Wikipedia articles credit them with a foundational semiconductor or computing advance: the transistor (Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley), the integrated circuit (Kilby, Noyce), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer ENIAC (Eckert), information theory (Shannon), the observation known as Moores law and the growth of the integrated-circuit industry (Moore), and the wartime analog computing and science-administration work behind Memex and the differential analyzer (Vannevar Bush). Grouped together as the engineers whose own source articles place their principal work in the semiconductor and computing sub-field of electrical engineering, distinct from power systems and telecommunications.
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1. Wikipedia: Transistor
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The first working device was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement.
Electrical Engineering (Wikipedia)
J. Presper Eckert (Wikipedia)
Has Member: J. Presper Eckert, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Vannevar Bush (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Vannevar Bush, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Gordon Moore (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gordon Moore, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source John Bardeen (Wikipedia)
Has Member: John Bardeen, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Walter Brattain (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Walter Brattain, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Claude Shannon (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Claude Shannon, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Robert Noyce (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Robert Noyce, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source William Shockley (Wikipedia)
Has Member: William Shockley, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Jack Kilby (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jack Kilby, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own articleView the Source Haroon Ahmed (Wikipedia)
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Haroon Ahmed (2 March 1936-23 October 2024) was a British-Pakistani scientist who specialised in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering.
Patrick E. Haggerty (Wikipedia)
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Under his leadership, the company grew from a small Texas oil exploration company into a global leader in the semiconductor industry.
Frederick Terman (Wikipedia)
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He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley.
Jan M. Rabaey (Wikipedia)
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Rabaey has made major contributions to a number of fields including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing.
Frank J. Canova (Wikipedia)
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Francis James Canova Jr. (born 23 December 1956) is an American electronics designer who originated the idea for the IBM Simon and has thus been described as the inventor of the smartphone.
Leon O. Chua (Wikipedia)
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Leon Ong Chua (; Chinese: 蔡少棠; pinyin: Cài Shǎotáng; Wade-Giles: Ts'ai Shao-t'ang; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer and computer scientist.
Igor Aleksander (Wikipedia)
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Igor Aleksander (born 26 January 1937) is an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London.
Azita Emami (Wikipedia)
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Emami works on low-power mixed-mode circuits in scalable technologies.
Asen Asenov (Wikipedia)
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Asen Asenov (born 30 January 1954, in Sofia) is a Bulgarian scientist and entrepreneur in the field of microelectronics and device modelling and has focused on Technology Computer Aided design (TCAD).
Alec Broers, Baron Broers (Wikipedia)
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These were the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits that was to occur in the decades to come.
Wikipedia: Fujio Masuoka
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He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash and NAND flash types in the 1980s.
Robert H. Dennard (ETHW)
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His accomplishments include pioneering the dynamic RAM memory cell used in most computers today, and playing a key role in the development of the concept of MOSFET scaling.
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