List of electrical engineers

List of personalities, the contributions in the field of electrical engineering have made:

A

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov ( born 1930 ), Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner - semiconductor physics, semiconductor lasers
• André- Marie Ampère (1775-1836), French physicist and mathematician - electricity flowing as the cause of magnetism, current direction, Ampèresches law, Ampere unit
• Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson (1878-1975), Swedish -American electrical engineer - machinery transmitter for long-wave transmitter, Alexanderson alternator, fax transmission
• George Antheil (1900-1959), German - American composer, pianist and inventor - frequency hopping torpedo guidance system ( with Lamarr )
• Georg Graf von Arco (1869-1940), German physicist - co-founder of the Telefunken Company; Transmission equipment, high-frequency technology
• Manfred von Ardenne (1907-1997), German scientist - cathode ray tube, electronic television
• Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954), American electrical engineer and inventor - wireless technology, superheterodyne receiver, FM radio, feedback, wideband frequency modulation, multiplexing method
• John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995), Bulgarian - American physicist - Atanasoff -Berry Computer

B

• John Bardeen (1908-1991), American physicist and two-time Nobel laureate - co-inventor of the transistor ( Shockley and Brattain with ), superconductivity
• Heinrich Barkhausen (1881-1956), German physicist - Low power technology, communications, Magnetic Barkhausen effect Barkhausen -Kurz- vibration, Bark scale
• Jean -Maurice -Émile Baudot (1845-1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor - Baudot Telegrafiegerät, Baudot code baud unit
• Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), French physicist - Photoelectric Effect
• Antoine César Becquerel (1788-1878), French physicist - piezoelectricity, DC element, electric thermometer
• Alexander Behm (1880-1952), German physicist - invention of sonar
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish- American inventor and entrepreneur - Development of the phone unit Bel
• Alfred Rosling Bennett (1850-1928), English electrical engineer and pioneer of electric lighting and the phone
• John Bevis (1693-1771), English physician and amateur astronomer - further development of the Leyden jar
• Gottfried Meier Biegel (1924-2007), Austrian physicist - Electric pathology, development of residual current circuit breaker
• Jean -Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), French physicist and mathematician - Biot- Savart law, Optical activity, biotite, unit Biot
• André -Eugène Blondel (1863-1938), French physicist - inventor of the oscillograph system of photometric units, unit Blondel
• Hendrik Wade Bode (1905-1982), American electrical engineer - Bode diagram
• Robert Bosch (1861-1942), German industrialist and inventor - Magneto ( spark plug)
• Willard Boyle (1924-2011) Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate - co-inventor of the charge -coupled devices ( CCD)
• Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 1954 ), German electrical engineer - co-inventor of the MP3 audio data compression
• Édouard Branly (1844-1940), French physicist and radio technology pioneer - Fritter ( coherer )
• Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), American physicist and Nobel laureate - co-inventor of the transistor ( with Shockley and Bardeen )
• Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918), German physicist, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate - CRT ( cathode ray tube ), oscilloscope, wireless telegraphy
• Hans -Joachim von Braunmühl (1900-1980), German magnetic tape pioneer - high-frequency bias, magnetic tape recorder, television image recording
• Franz Breisig (1868-1934), Upper - telegraph engineer in the Reich Post Office
• Jacob Brett (1808-1898), British communications engineer and inventor - type printing telegraph, telegraph cable through the English Channel ( with John Watkins Brett )
• John Watkins Brett (1805-1863), British Telegrafieingenieur - telegraph cable through the English Channel ( with Jacob Brett )
• Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), a British electrical engineer - telegraphy, transatlantic cable
• Hans Busch (1884-1973), German physicist - electron optics, electron lens electron microscope
• Stephen Butterworth (1885-1958), British physicist - Butterworth filter

C

• Temistocle Calzecchi - Onesti (1853-1922), Italian physicist - Fundamentals of wireless telegraphy, precursor of a coherer
• Hans R. Camenzind (1934-2012), Swiss electronics engineer - known developer of integrated circuits
• George Ashley Campbell (1870-1954), American communications engineer - co-founder of the theory of electrical filters ( with Wagner)
• Ferdinand Carré (1824-1900), French engineer - Carré machine ( electrostatic generator )
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), German mathematician and physicist - linear network synthesis ( circuit synthesis)
• Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865), British mathematician - magnetism; Wheatstone bridge
• Henry Clothier (1872-1938), English power engineer - inventor of the cabinet
• William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), English telegraphy pioneer and inventor - telegraphic ( Wheatstone )
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806), French physicist - founder of electrostatics and magnetostatics; Coulomb's Law, Coulomb unit

D

• John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845) British chemist - constant current source, Daniell cell ( galvanic copper -zinc element) unit Daniell
• Ernst Danielson (1866-1907), Swedish power engineer and one of the pioneers of the Swedish Electrical - Three Phase AC
• Robert Davidson (1804-1894), Scottish inventor - first known electric locomotive
• Lee De Forest (1873-1961), American physicist, engineer and inventor of radio - wireless telegraphy, radio, film and television technology, Audion amplifier tube ( triode), sound record
• Marcel Deprez (1843-1918) was a French physicist and electrical engineer
• Max Dieckmann (1882-1960), German engineer and high-frequency radio pioneer - ATC, radio navigation, radio direction finding, traffic control, radio image
• Ray Dolby (1933-2013), American electrical engineer and inventor - magnetic audio and video recording and playback, Dolby Noise Reduction ( compander ), Dolby Stereo
• Mikhail Dolivo - of Dobrowolsky (1862-1919), a Russian electrical engineer - asynchronous motor, three-phase, long-distance transmission of electrical energy
• Paul Drude (1863-1906), German physicist - Drude theory, ellipsometry
• Ducretet Eugène (1844-1915), French inventor and industrialist - X-ray apparatus, precision instruments
• William Du Bois Duddell (1872-1917), English electrical engineer; Singing Arc Lamp

E

• John Presper Eckert (1919-1995), American electrical engineer and computer pioneer - ENIAC, UNIVAC I (with Mauchly )
• Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and entrepreneur, especially in the field of electricity, including light bulb
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955), U.S. physicist of Swiss German - Jewish descent - relativity, photoelectric effect
• Julius Elster (1854-1920), German physicist and teacher - among other things, atmospheric electricity, co-inventor of the photocell ( with Geitel )
• Agner Krarup Erlang (1878-1929), Danish mathematician and engineer - queuing theory in telephony, Erlang distribution, Erlang unit
• Abraham Esau (1884-1955), German physicist - radio metrology, ultra-short wave technology, magnetron

F

• Federico Faggin ( born 1941 ), Italian physicist, electrical engineer, entrepreneur and microchip Specialist - Processor Intel 4004
• Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English physicist and chemist - electrodynamics, propagation velocity of the electromagnetic force, magnetic properties of light, electromagnetic induction, Generator, Faraday paradox Faraday effect Faraday cage Faraday's law, unit Farad, Faraday constant
• Richard Feldtkeller (1901-1981), German physicist and electrical engineer - Telecommunications
• Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864-1930), a British electrical engineer and inventor - Ferranti effect
• Galileo Ferraris (1847-1897), Italian engineer and physicist - AC technology, Ferraris meters, Ferrari runners
• Reginald Fessenden (1866-1932), Canadian inventor and radio pioneer - Machine transmitter first wireless voice transmission, first broadcast
• John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945), a British electrical engineer and physicist - Fleming valve ( tube diode electron tube )
• Lee de Forest, supra under "D"
• Jay W. Forrester ( born 1918 ), a pioneer of computer technology and system dynamics - forerunner of today's RAM ( Random Access Memory)
• Rudolf Franke (1870-1962), German electrical engineer - Telecommunications
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American publisher, statesman, writer, scientist, natural philosopher and Freemason - inventor of the lightning rod, Franklin unit
• Carl Ludwig Fresh (1830-1890), German electrical engineer - telegraphy, answering procedures, Elektromote electric locomotive, track block ( Command)
• Harry Fuld (1879-1932), German industrialist - Tenovis ( Telefonbau and Standard Time); electric clocks

G

• Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), Italian physician, anatomist and biophysicist - galvanism, Galvanic cell
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician - first electric telegraph ( with Weber), unit Gaussian
• Heinrich Geissler (1814-1879), German physicist - inventor of the Geissler tube
• Hans Friedrich Geitel (1855-1923), German physicist - Photoelectric Effect, co-inventor of the photocell ( with Elster)
• William Gilbert (1544-1603), English physician and physicist - magnetism, geomagnetism, unit Gilbert
• Heinrich Göbel (1818-1893), German -American precision mechanic and inventor - the forerunner of a light bulb (disputed )
• Eugen Goldstein (1850-1930), German physicist - gas discharge research, discovery of the canal rays ( ionizing radiation )
• Leo Graetz (1856-1941), German physicist - Graetz circuit ( Graetz bridge ), Graetz number
• Daniel Gralath (1708-1767), German physicist and mayor of Gdansk - battery of Leyden jars
• Zénobe Gramme (1826-1901), Belgian designer and inventor - grams Escher ring ( dynamo-electric motor with continuous induction), alternator
• Elisha Gray (1835-1901), American teacher, inventor and entrepreneur - telephone and telegraph technology, co-inventor of the telephone, tele Autograph ( Telegraph )
• Otto Griessing (1897-1958), German electrical engineer - Volksempfänger
• Otto von Guericke (1602-1686), German politician, lawyer, physicist, inventor and veterinarian - electrical machine, electroluminescence

B

• Edwin Hall (1855-1938), American physicist - Hall Effect
• William Hall wax (1859-1922), German physicist - Hall wax effect
• Ralph Hartley (1888-1970), American electrical engineer - Shannon - Hartley Act, Hartley circuit, co-founder of information theory, unit Hartley
• William Eugen Hartmann (1853-1915), German electrical engineer - electrical appliances, machinery and measuring instruments
• Friedrich August Haselwander (1859-1932), German electrical engineer - co-inventor of the alternator ( with Bradley, Dolivo - Dobrowolsky, Wenström )
• Francis Hauksbee (around 1666-1713 ), British scientist - electrical machine
• Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), British mathematician and physicist - electromagnetism, Heaviside function, Poynting vector, Heaviside layer, electret, telegraph equation
• Friedrich von Hefner - Alteneck (1845-1904), German electrical engineer, designer and engineer - Telecommunications and Power Engineering, unity candle Hefner
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physicist and physiologist - Helmholtz function, Helmholtz coil Helmholtz resonator Helmholtz equation Gibbs - Helmholtz equation, unit Helmholtz
• Joseph Henry (1797-1878), American physicist - electromagnetism, electromagnetic, self-induction, unit Henry
• Carl Hering (1860-1926), American electrical and mechanical engineer - Herring shear test (induction trial), electric
• Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist - electromagnetic waves, Hertzian oscillator, External Photoelectric effect, Hertz
• Wolfgang Hilberg (* 1932), German Electrical Engineer - digital coded transmission time for radio controlled watches
• Søren Hjorth (1801-1870), Danish railway pioneer and inventor dynamo electric principle, self-excited dynamo ( electric generator )
• Jean Hoerni (1924-1997), Swiss physicist - inventor of the planar technology for transistors
• Marcian Edward Hoff ( born 1937 ), American electrical engineer - inventor of the microprocessor, Least Mean Squares algorithm ( with Bernard Widrow )
• Wilhelm Holtz (1836-1913), German physicist - inventor of the Holtz machine ( Influence )
• David Edward Hughes (1831-1900), British-American engineer and inventor - type printing telegraph, telephone Hughes, carbon microphone
• Albert Wallace Hull (1880-1966), American physicist and inventor - magnetron, Dynatron
• Christian Hülsmeyer (1881-1957), German entrepreneur and inventor - telemobiloscope (radar ), coherer

I

• Herbert E. Ives (1882-1953), American physicist, inventor and television pioneer - black-and- white and color fax and television broadcasting

J

• Ányos Jedlik (1800-1895), a Hungarian physicist, scientist, teacher and inventor - Dynamo Electric principle
• Abram Fedorovich Joffe (1880-1960), Soviet physicist - solid state physics, semiconductor physics, piezoelectricity, Joffe effect
• John Bertrand Johnson (1887-1970), Swedish - American physicist - noise, Johnson noise
• James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), British physicist - Joule 's law, magnetostriction ( Joule effect ), unit Joule

K

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate - discoverer of superconductivity, Onnes effect
• August Karolus (1893-1972), German physicist - Karolus cell for electronic image transmission for TV technology
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - see below under "T "
• Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861-1939), American electrical engineer - Complex AC circuit analysis, Heaviside layer
• Fritz Kesselring (1897-1977), Swiss electrical engineer - Expansion switch, Kontaktumformer
• Erhard Kietzmann (1909-1982), German physicist - frequency stability for video signals, development of television
• Jack Kilby (1923-2005), American engineer - Nobel laureate, integrated circuit ( with Noyce )
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887), German physicist - Kirchhoff's rules, Kirchhoff's law of radiation
• Erasmus Kittler (1852-1929), German physicist and electrical pioneer - the world's first chair of electrical engineering, electrical engineering handbook
• Frederik Adolf Kjellin (1872-1910), Swedish chemist and inventor - induction melting furnace for electric steelmaking
• Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700-1748), Prussian jurist and scientist - Leyden jar ( Kleistian bottle)
• Klaus von Klitzing ( b. 1943 ), German physicist - quantum Hall effect, resistivity measurement, unit of Klitzing constant
• Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840-1910), German physicist - carbon intoxication square-root law
• Rudolf Kohlrausch (1809-1858), German physicist - Kohlrausch function
• Rudolf Kompfner (1909-1977), Austria - British physicist and engineer - co-inventor of the traveling wave tube
• Johann Kravogl (1823-1889), Austrian gunsmiths and mechanics - inventor of an electric motor
• Herbert Kroemer ( born 1928 ), German physicist and Nobel laureate - heterojunction bipolar transistor, semiconductor laser, molecular beam epitaxy

L

• Wilhelm Lahmeyer (1859-1907), German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and inventor - self-regulating arc lamp, electrical equipment and machinery
• Eric Laithwaite (1921-1997), English electrical engineer - linear motor maglev ( magnetic levitation )
• Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Austrian actress - frequency hopping torpedo guidance system ( with share )
• Maurice Leblanc (1857-1923), French electrical engineer - image scanning and transmission, preparatory work for television
• Bernard J. Lechner (1932 ), American television engineer, active matrix displays
• Georges Leclanche (1839-1882), French chemist - Leclanche element
• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher and scientist Universal - Calculator, Dual System
• Emil Lenz (1804-1865), Baltic German physicist - Lenz's Law, Joule- Lenz's law, the thermal efficiency of the current
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German mathematician, physicist and writer - Experimental Physics, Elektrophor, Lichtenberg figures
• Robert von Lieben (1878-1913), Austrian physicist - loving tube ( electron tube amplifier effect ), relay
• Karl Arvid Lindstrom (1866-1944), Swedish electrical engineer
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), Dutch mathematician and physicist - Lorentz ether theory ( theory of electrons ), Lorentz force Lorentz transformation
• Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (1903-1942), Russian radio frequency engineer - semiconductor technology, electroluminescence (LED), Crystadyn receiver
• Fritz Lüdi (1903-1963), Swiss RF Technician - Hochleistungsglühkathoden - mutator ( converter ), Vielschlitzmagnetron, klystron
• Robert Lüdtge (1845-1880), German physicist - inventor of the electric microphone

M

• Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur - pioneer of wireless telecommunications, telegraph and radio technology; Marconi antenna
• Erwin Otto Marx (1893-1980), German engineering scientist - Marx generator, high voltage direct current transmission converter
• Joseph Massolle (1889-1957), German film sound engineer - sound film, optical sound ( with Engl, Vogt )
• John William Mauchly (1907-1980), American physicist and computer pioneer - ENIAC, UNIVAC I ( Eckert )
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist - Maxwell's equations
• Emil Mechau (1882-1945), German engineer, cinema pioneer and inventor - Mechau projector, flying spot scanner, video door phone, television camera
• Heinrich Meidinger (1831-1905), German physicist - Meidinger Element ( galvanic cell)
• Alexander Meissner (1883-1958), German physicist - pioneer of radio technology; Meissner circuit
• Antonio Meucci (1808-1889), Italian - American inventor - first electric telephone connection, invention of the telephone
• Gustav Mie (1868-1957), German physicist - Mie scattering, Mie potential, Miesches unit system, Mie theory, equation of state of Mie, world function
• Dénes Mihály (1894-1953), Hungarian physicist and engineer - Mechanical television ( Telehor )
• Oskar von Miller (1855-1934), German civil engineer - direct current transmission, the first power station, AC transmission
• Gordon Moore ( born 1929 ), American chemist and physicist - Founder of semiconductor manufacturer Intel, Moore's Law
• Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911-1977), German - American physicist - inventor of the field electron and field ion microscope of
• Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761), a Dutch scientist - inventor of the Leyden jar ( capacitor )

N

• Nesper Eugen (1879-1961), German engineer and high-frequency radio pioneer - the introduction of radio, wireless
• Georg Neumann (1898-1976), German entrepreneur and developer - electro-acoustic devices, condenser microphones, nickel - cadmium batteries
• William Nicholson (1753-1815), British chemist Electric - electrolysis
• Paul Nipkow (1860-1940), German engineer and inventor - opto-mechanical television image scanning Nipkow disk
• Robert Noyce (1927-1990), American physicist, entrepreneur and inventor - semiconductors, integrated circuit ( with Kilby )
• Harry Nyquist (1889-1976), Swedish - American physicist - Johnson - Nyquist noise, stability criterion of Nyquist, Nyquist -Shannon sampling theorem, information theory

O

• Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851), Danish physicist and chemist - magnetic effect of electric current, piezometers, unit Oersted
• Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854), German physicist and mathematician - Ohm's law, Ohm unit
• Kenneth Olsen (1926-2011), American electrical engineer - minicomputers; Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
• Temistocle Calzecchi - Onesti see below "C"

P

• Antonio Pacinotti (1841-1912), Italian physicist - Pacinotti grams Escher ring ( ring beam Dynamo )
• Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), American inventor - electrical inventions, including electric locomotive, solenoid linear motor
• Nikolai Dmitrievich Papaleksi (1880-1947), Russian RF Technician - electron tubes, wired and wireless telephony, interference method, radio location
• Frank William Peek (1881-1933), American electrical engineer - high voltage, artificial lightning, Peek 's formula for corona losses
• Jean Peltier (1785-1845), French physicist - Peltier effect Peltier element
• Waldemar Petersen (1880-1946), German electrical engineer - founder of High Voltage Engineering, extinguishing coil to earth fault ( Petersen coil) wattmetric ELR, theory of the electric field, voltage breakdown
• Franz Adam Petrina (1799-1855), Swedish physicist - theory of electrophorus, resin cake electroscope, Physharmonica
• Fritz Pfleumer (1881-1945), German - Austrian engineer - inventor of the tape ( magnetic tape )
• Hippolyte Pixii (1808-1835), a French instrument maker - first AC generator, generator for pulsating direct current
• Gaston Plante (1834-1889), French physicist and paleontologist - inventor of the Lead Accumulator
• Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796-1877), German physicist - galvanometer, Poggendorffsche compensation circuit, electrostatic motor
• Alexander M. Poniatoff (1892-1980), Russian- American electrical engineer - Founder U.S. firm AMPEX; first VCR
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1906), Russian physicist - pioneer of radio technology; the world's first radio receiver
• John Henry Poynting (1852-1914), English physicist - Poynting - Robertson effect, set of Poynting, Poynting vector
• Mihajlo Pupin (1854-1935), Serbian - American physicist - Pupin coil, x-ray exposure

Q

• Georg Hermann Quincke (1834-1924), German physicist - Quincke rotation, Quinckesches interference tube

R

• John Turton Randall (1905-1984), British physicist - Improvement of radar microwaves, Cavity magnetron
• Johann Philipp Reis (1834-1874), German physicist and inventor - the invention of the telephone, called " Phone " contact microphone
• Georg Wilhelm Rich Man (1711-1753), Baltic German physicist - static electricity, electric meters
• Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761-1835), Italian jurist, economist, philosopher and amateur physicist - discovery of the distracting effect of the current on a magnetic needle
• Reinhold Rüdenberg (1883-1961), German electrical engineer and inventor - variable-speed three-phase shunt commutator motor, electron
• Ernst Walter Ruhmer (1878-1913), German physicist - pioneer of carrier frequency technology; Digital sounds and playback ( Photographon ), electrolytic telephone, wireless telephone
• Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff (1803-1877), mechanics and electrical engineers - spark coil ( induction coil, Rühmkorfflampe ), Bunsen element

S

• Hans Sauer (1923-1996), German inventor - electromechanical switching elements (relay), miniature relays
• Félix Savart (1791-1841), French physician and physicist - relationship between electricity and magnetism Biot- Savart law ( with Biot )
• Alexander Iosifovich Schalnikow (1905-1986), Russian physicist - superconductor
• Harald Schering (1880-1959), German physicist - High Voltage Engineering, Schering Bridge
• Otto Schmitt (1913-1998), American biophysicist and inventor - Schmitt trigger differential amplifier
• Ferdinand Schneider (1866-1955), German engineer, inventor, engineer and entrepreneur - telegraphy, antennas, detectors, world clock
• Walter Schottky (1886-1976), German physicist and electrical engineer - Schottky effect, Schottky diode, Schottky barrier Schottky defect, Schottky equation, Schottky contact
• Georg Oskar Schubert (1900-1955), German electrical engineer and television technician - intermediate film process, Gegenseh - telephone equipment ( video telephony )
• Eduard Schüller (1904-1976), German electrical engineer - tape recorder, video recorder, helical scanning
• Theodor Schultes (1901-1981), German electrical engineer and pioneer of radar technology - radio frequency technology, radiomeasuring Freya, Wassermann and hunting lodge
• Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779-1857), German physicist - ammeter ( galvanometer )
• Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770-1831), Baltic German physicist - thermoelectric effect ( Seebeck effect ), thermoelectric voltage range
• Gerhard Sessler (* 1931), German electrical engineer and inventor - electret silicon microphone
• Claude Shannon (1916-2001), American mathematician - information theory, Shannon unit
• Isaac Shoenberg (1880-1963), a Russian electrical engineer and radio frequency technician - telegraphy, television technology; Cathode ray tube
• William B. Shockley (1910-1989), American physicist and Nobel laureate - co-inventor of the transistor ( Bardeen and Brattain with ), Shockley equation
• Werner von Siemens (1816-1892), German industrialist, inventor and founder of electrical engineering - electrical pointer telegraph, telegraphy, dynamo, electric locomotive unit Siemens
• William Joseph Sinsteden (1803-1891), German physician and physicist - Inductors, breakers, electric motor, lead acid battery
• Adolf Slaby (1849-1913), German electrical engineer and pioneer of radio technology - Telegraph
• Josip Sliskovic (1901-1984), Croatian -Austrian radio pioneer - 10 - valve superheterodyne, radios, television
• Eberhard Spenke (1905-1992), German physicist - silicon semiconductor zone melting method
• Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860-1930), American electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur - gyro compass, navigation instruments, electrical equipment
• Paul Schmidt (1868-1948), German inventor and entrepreneur - dry battery flashlight
• John Robert Schrieffer ( born 1931 ), American electrical engineer and physicist - BCS theory ( theory of superconductivity )
• Frank Julian Sprague (1857-1934), American naval officer and inventor - Electric motors, trams, electric trains and elevators
• Edgar Karl Alois Steimel (1905-1990), German physicist - Hexodes mixing tube, co-constructor of the German small receiver ( People's Radio )
• Karl Steinbuch (1917-2005), German communications engineer and cybernetician - founder of the German computer science and inventor of the first practical artificial neural network (learning matrix )
• Carl August von Steinheil (1801-1870), German physicist and astronomer - telegraphy; Earth as a return conductor
• Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), German -American electrical engineer - AC theory, hysteresis theory, Steinmetz circuit
• Lewis B. Stillwell (1863-1941), American electrical engineer - AC, power plants, Stillwell regulator
• John Stone Stone (1869-1943), American mathematician, physicist and inventor - telephony and telegraphy
• Felix Strecker (1891-1951), German electrical engineer at Siemens
• Karl Strecker (1858-1934), German physicist and electrical engineer - Elektrotelegrafie
• Almon Strowger (1839-1902), American inventor and Undertaker - electric stepper voters, automatic telephone exchange
• William Sturgeon (1783-1850), English physicist and inventor - electromagnet, galvanometer
• Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor - Bulb, Swanfassung
• Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863-1930), a British electrical engineer - cable with lead sheath, thermal effects of focused cathode rays, preliminary work on the electronic television

T

• Frederick Emmons Terman (1900-1982) "Father of Silicon Valley " (with William Shockley )
• Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Serb-Croat -American electrical engineer and inventor - utilization of alternating current, Tesla transformer, remote control, three-phase alternating current, Tesla unit
• Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), British-American electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur - X-ray machines, arc lamps, AC motors, AC technology
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin ) ( 1824-1907 ), British physicist - AMR effect, telegraph equation, Thomson bridge Thomson formula, Kelvin generator, Thomson effect, Thomson vibration equation, moving-coil instrument, Kelvin
• Henri Tudor (1859-1928), Luxembourgian engineer and inventor - lead-acid batteries
• Merle Antony Tuve (1901-1982), American physicist and geophysicist - radio waves, preparatory work for the radar

U

• Shintaro Uda (1896-1976), Japanese electrical engineer - Yagi -Uda antenna ( with Yagi )
• Richard Ulbricht (1849-1923), German electrical engineer - Low power technology, integrating sphere

V

• Cromwell Fleetwood Varley (1828-1883), a British electrical engineer - Discovery of the negative charge of cathode rays
• Edy Velander (1894-1961), Swedish electrical engineer - power supply, compensation temporary peak loads, computer
• Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovenian electrical engineer and chess grandmaster - transformer technology
• Hans Vogt (1890-1979), German engineer - inventor of the optical sound ( with Engl, Massolle ), high frequency coil, speaker
• Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Italian physicist - Elektrophor, electrometer plate capacitor, Voltaic pile, voltmeter, Volta effect, contact stress, contact electricity, unit volts

W

• Karl Willy Wagner (1883-1953), German news Technician - founders of the theory of electrical filters ( with Campbell)
• Julius Wallot (1876-1960), German physicist - Low power technology, four-pole theory, numerical value equation
• Sir William Watson (1715-1787), English physician and naturalist - improving the Leyden jar
• Walter Weber (1907-1944), German physicist and engineer - pioneer of electromagnetic sound recording, high-frequency bias
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), German physicist - first electromagnetic telegraph ( Gaussian ), unit Weber
• Jonas Wenström (1855-1893), Swedish power engineer and one of the pioneers of the Swedish Electrical - Three Phase AC
• Whenelt Arthur (1871-1944), German physicist - Whenelt breaker, Wehnelt, oxide cathode ( hot cathode ), rectifier tube, evidence of space charge
• Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist - Wheatstone bridge, electromagnetic five -needle telegraph, pointer telegraph, rheostat
• Max Wien (1866-1938), German physicist - High Frequency Technology, quenched gap transmitter, AC, electrical oscillations, wireless telegraphy
• Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928), German physicist - thermal radiation, Wien's displacement law, Wien's radiation law, Wien filters ( filter speed )
• Frederic Calland Williams (1911-1977), English electrical engineer - Williams tube ( with Kilburn ), Manchester Mark I
• Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788), English painter and scientist - Law of accumulation at the Leyden jar
• James Wimshurst (1832-1903), English inventor - Wimshurstmaschine ( Influence )
• Johann Heinrich Winckler (1703-1770), German philosopher, philologist and naturalist - electrical machine
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English physician, physicist and chemist - static electricity, preparatory to an electric motor, improved battery

X, Y

• Hidetsugu Yagi (1886-1976), Japanese physicist - Yagi -Uda antenna ( with Uda )

Z

• Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943), Dutch physicist - Zeeman effect ( splitting of spectral lines in a magnetic field )
• Clarence Melvin Zener (1905-1993), American physicist and electrical engineer - Zener effect, Zener diode, Zener barrier
• Konrad Zuse (1910-1995), German civil engineer - first Computer (Z1 to Z4)
• Zwierina Otto (1900-1981), Austrian electrical engineer, measuring and test equipment
• Vladimir Zworykin (1888-1982), Russian- American engineer, physicist and inventor - Ikonoskop tube, kinescope, color television, electron

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