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.
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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 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.
View the Source 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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