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This is a
list of electrical engineers, people who made contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
It is recommended that proposed additions or deletions be discussed on the article's Talk:List of electrical engineers before being implemented.
{| class="wikitable"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! Who !! Contribution(s)|-|
Edwin Armstrong ] || Two Nobel prizes: transistor,
superconductivity || Acoustics: [Sound recording and
speakers || Communications|-| [Alexander Graham Bell ] || Pioneering electrical engineer|-| Alan Blumlein ]s,
sound recording,
stereophonic sound,
television, radar || Audio compression scheme [MP3 || Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system|-| [William David Coolidge || X-rays] || Supercomputer architect] || Audion vacuum tube || [Velcro || Physicist; [Dirac delta || Inventor of Three-phase motor|-| [Ray Dolby ] || Computer pioneer|-| Thomas Edison ], first practical
Incandescent light bulb,
telegraph improvements] || Communications and Queueing|-| Michael Faraday ] and Faraday shield || American television pioneer|-| [Galileo Ferraris || [Ferranti Corporation] || "
Father of Radio Broadcasting"|-|
Gerhard Fischer ]|-| John Ambrose Fleming ])|-|
Thomas Flowers ] || American computer pioneer|-| Charles Legeyt Fortescue ] for three-phase power system analysis|-|
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier ] / Fourier series || Businessman, current president of [Freedom Scientific || Electronics|-| [Oliver Heaviside ] || Hertzian Waves|-| Peter Cooper Hewitt ]|-| William Reddington Hewlett ||
Hewlett-Packard || Inventor of the world's first [computed tomography (CT) scanner] || Inventor of Three-phase electrical system|-|
Grace Hopper ] || Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft || Pioneer optical recording, [CD, DVD,
Blu-Ray Disc || [Unix -
Sun Microsystems || Inventor of the [Kalman filter || Automobile electrical innovations, [Delco founder] || Nobel prize: Integrated circuit || [Heterostructures and
semiconductor physics] || Linear
induction motor || Communications|-| [Uno Lamm ] and
mercury arc valves] || Practical radio|-| John Mauchly ] designer|-| Charles Hesterman Merz ] Electric power grid, England|-| Robert Moog ] || Nielsen ratings developer] || Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel || [Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs] || Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation || [Police Interceptor Computer; Maxwell Systems Inc. || Father of [SPICE || [Hewlett-Packard || Magnetic recording|-| [Mihajlo Pupin ] || Inventor of pulse code modulation|-| Hyman G. Rickover ]|| Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube|-|
H. J. Round ]|-|
Thomas Johann Seebeck ]|-| Claude Shannon ] ||
Microwave oven || "Father of Electric Traction"|-| [Charles Proteus Steinmetz ] theories|-| Sarkes Tarzian ] || First demonstration of
radar || Revolving magnetic field [electric motor,
Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer] || Entrepreneur|-|
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)] || Power transformers and transmission of electric current|-|
Andrew Viterbi ] || First practical radar || AC power industrialist|-| [Niklaus Wirth ]s|-| Steve Wozniak ]|-|
Konrad Zuse || Computers|}
See also