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IEEE has a proud history of honoring the leading engineers of the time.
We are pleased to provide biographies of 225 of those recipients,
who have been honored with the
IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE Edison Medal,
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
, IEEE Founders Medal
or the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award.

 

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Note: Some of the biographies are missing important information (in a few cases, even birth and death dates). We would appreciate receiving such information (and we would very much appreciate learning the source of the additional information). We would also appreciate help in obtaining photographs.

A
M. Robert Aaron
Norman Abramson
Comfort A. Adams
Robert Adler
Howard H. Aiken
Robert T.H. Alden
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson
Toshiharu Aoki
Frederick T. Andrews
Edward V. Appleton
Edwin H. Armstrong
Gerald R. Ash
Karl J. Åström
Norman R. Augustine
Louis W. Austin
Charles Avila

B
Henry L. Bachman
Richard J. Backe
William R. G. Baker
Paul Baran
John Bardeen
Walter J. Barrett
Wilmer L. Barrow
Antonio Bastos
Alexander Graham Bell
Richard Bellman
Daniel R. Benigni
Harold H. Beverage
Vijay K. Bhargava
Richard E. Blahut
Erich Bloch
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Hendrik W. Bode
Ralph Bown
John G. Brainerd
Donald S. Brereton
George Brown
Charles F. Brush
Oliver E. Buckley
Vannevar Bush
Henri Busignies

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C
George A. Campbell
Federico Capasso
E. Finley Carter
John J. Carty
Vinton G. Cerf
E. Leon Chaffee
Cummings C. Chesney
Alfred Y. Cho
Nathan Cohn
Ivan S. Coggeshall
Charles Concordia
Frank Conrad
Esther M. Conwell
William Coolidge
Robert F. Cotellessa
Donald C. Cox
Malcolm Currie
C. Chapin Cutler

D
Sidney Darlington
Lee De Forest
John H. Dellinger
Robert Dennard
Edward J. Doyle
Irwin Dorros
Alex Dow
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Floyd Dunn
Gano Dunn
Russell D. Dupuis

E
Melville Eastham
Charles R. Eldon
William L. Emmet
Joel D. Engel
Elmer W. Engstrom Leo Esaki
Lloyd Espenschied
Thelma Estrin
Thomas E. Everhart
William L. Everitt

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F
Gustave A. Ferrie
Reginald A. Fessenden
Donald G. Fink
James Flanagan
John A. Fleming
Harvey Fletcher
David Forney, Jr.
Jay W. Forrester
Richard H. Frenkiel
Harald T. Friis
Robert A. Frosch

G
Dennis Gabor
Robert G. Gallager
Robert W. Galvin
Luis T. Gandia
Leslie A. Geddes
Ivan A. Getting
Bancroft Gherardi
Edward L. Ginzton
Harold S. Goldberg
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Eugene Gordon
Andrew S. Grove
Ernst A. Guillemin

H
Joachim Hagenauer
Patrick E. Haggerty
Edward E. Hammer
John H. Hammond, Jr.
Ralph V. L. Hartley
George H. Heilmeier
Raymond A. Heising
Robert Henle
Edward W. Herold
William R. Hewlett
James Hillier
Ronald G. Hoelzeman
John V. L. Hogan
Nick Holonyak, Jr.
Stanford C. Hooper
Morris D. Hooven
Lawrence C. F. Horle
Richard R. Hough
Albert W. Hull
Lawrence A. Hyland

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I-J
Masaru Ibuka
Kees A. Shouhamer Immink
Hiroshi Inose
Dugald C. Jackson
A. Christian Jacobaeus
Irwin M. Jacobs
William C. Jakes, Jr.
Frank B. Jewett
Amos E. Joel, Jr.
Anita K. Jones
Murray Joslin

K
Robert E. Kahn
Thomas Kailath
Rudolf E. Kalman
William Keister
Arthur E. Kennelly
Raymond W. Ketchledge
Charles F. Kettering
Jack St. Clair Kilby
Koji Kobayashi
Herwig Kogelnik
Rudolf Kompfner
Vladimir A. Kotelnikov
William B. Kouwenhoven
John D. Kraus
Herbert Kroemer

L
Benjamin G. Lamme
Rolf Landauer
Paul C. Lauterbur
Peter Lawrenson
Albert G. Lee
Thomas H. Lee
Morris E. Leeds
John W. Lieb
John O. Limb
Clarence H. Linder
Robert Lucky

M
James R. Macdonald
Guglielmo Marconi
James L. Massey
John S. Mayo
Karl B. Mceachron
Andrew G. L. McNaughton
James D. Meindl
David G. Messerschmitt
Robert M. Metcalfe
William M. Middleton
John M. Miller
Robert A. Millikan
John L. Moll
Gordon E. Moore
Akio Morita
James H. Mulligan, Jr.

N-O
Tsuneo Nakahara
Arun N. Netravali
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa
Daniel E. Noble
Robert N. Noyce
Harry Nyquist
Billy B. Oliver
Kenneth H. Olsen
Hanzo Omi
Jim K. Omura
James B. Owens

P
David Packard
C. Kumar Patel
Irene C. Peden
Peder O. Pedersen
Donald O. Pederson
Joseph M. Pettit
Greenleaf W. Pickard
William H. Pickering
George W. Pierce
John R. Pierce
James Pomerene
Haraden Pratt
Walter E. Proebster
Michael I. Pupin

Q-R
Calvin F. Quate
Jan A. Rajchman
Simon Ramo
Norman F. Ramsey
Eberhardt Rechtin
Edwin W. Rice Jr.
Stephen O. Rice
Robert A. Rivers
Elgin B. Robertson, Sr.
Albert Rose
Benjamin M. Rosen
Harold A. Rosen
Ian M. Ross
Alan W. Rudge
Harris J. Ryan
John D. Ryder

S
David Sarnoff
Robert M. Saunders
Roland W. Schmitt
Herman P. Schwan
Charles F. Scott
Raymond D. Sears
Tadahiro Sekimoto
Claude E. Shannon
William Shockley
John W. Simpson
David Slepian
George C. Southworth
Philip Sporn
Frank J. Sprague
William Stanley
Raymond S. Stata
Arthur P. Stern
Lewis B. Stillwell
John Stone Stone
Archie W. Straiton
Julius A. Stratton
Eric E. Sumner

T-U
Robert H. Tanner
Albert H. Taylor
Gordon K. Teal
Bernard D.H. Tellegen
Frederick E. Terman
Nikola Tesla
Elihu Thomson
Philip Torchio
Charles H. Townes
Charles W. Turner
John W. Tukey
Fawwaz T. Ulaby

V-Z
Balth. Van Der Pol
H. Earle Vaughan
Andrew J. Viterbi
Charles F. Wagner
Ernst Weber
George Westinghouse
Harold A. Wheeler
John R. Whinnery
John B. Whitehead
Willis R. Whitney
Bernard Widrow
Jerome B. Wiesner
William Wilson
Robert C. Winton
Eugene Wong
John M. Wozencraft
Jerry R. Yeargan
Shigeru Yonezawa
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Jonathan Zenneck
Vladimir K. Zworykin

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