List of personalities in electrical engineering

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

A.

Shores Iwanowitsch Alfjorow (1930–2019), Russian physicist and Nobel laureate - semiconductor physics, semiconductor lasers
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French physicist and mathematician - flowing electricity as the cause of magnetism , current direction, Ampère's law , unit ampere
Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson (1878–1975), Swedish-American electrical engineer - machine transmitter for long wave transmitters, Alexanderson alternator , fax transmission
George Antheil (1900–1959), German-American composer, pianist and inventor - frequency hopping method, torpedo guidance system (with Lamarr)
Georg Graf von Arco (1869–1940), German physicist - co-founder of the Telefunken Society; Transmission systems , 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 - radio technology , superheterodyne receivers , VHF radio , feedback, broadband frequency modulation , multiplexing
John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), Bulgarian-American physicist - Atanasoff-Berry computer

B.

John Bardeen (1908–1991), American physicist and two-time Nobel Prize winner - co-inventor of the transistor (with Shockley and Brattain), superconductivity
Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), German physicist - low-voltage technology , communications engineering, magnetic Barkhausen effect , Barkhausen short oscillation , Bark scale
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845–1903), French telegraphy engineer and inventor - Baudot telegraph device, Baudot code , Baud unit

Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), French physicist - photoelectric effect

Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878), French physicist - piezoelectricity , direct current element, electric thermometer

Alexander Behm (1880–1952), German physicist - invention of the echo sounder

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), Scottish-American inventor and entrepreneur - development of the telephone , unit Bel

Alfred Rosling Bennett (1850–1928), English electrical engineer and pioneer of electrical lighting and the telephone

John Bevis (1695–1771), English doctor and amateur astronomer - further development of the Leiden bottle

Gottfried Biegelmeier (1924–2007), Austrian physicist - electropathology , further development of the 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

Alan Dower Blumlein (1903–1942), British electronics engineer and inventor - including stereo recording

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 Prize winner - co-inventor of the charge coupled device ( CCD )

Karlheinz Brandenburg (* 1954), German electrical engineer - co-inventor of MP3 audio data compression

Édouard Branly (1844–1940), French physicist and radio technology pioneer - coherer

Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), American physicist and Nobel Prize winner - co-inventor of the transistor (with Shockley and Bardeen)

Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), German physicist, electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner - cathode ray tube (Braun tube), oscilloscope, wireless telegraphy

Hans-Joachim von Braunmühl (1900–1980), German magnetic tape pioneer - high-frequency pre-magnetization, magnetic tape recording, television image recording

Franz Breisig (1868–1934), chief telegraph engineer at 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 telegraph engineer - Telegraph cables across the English Channel (with Jacob Brett)

Charles Tilston Bright (1832–1888), 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 - basics of wireless telegraphy , forerunner of a coherent
Hans R. Camenzind (1934–2012), Swiss electronics engineer-developer of well-known 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 measuring bridge
Henry Clothier (1872–1938), English power engineer - inventor of the control cabinet
William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879), English telegraph pioneer and inventor - telegraph equipment (with Wheatstone)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), French physicist - founder of electrostatics and magnetostatics ; Coulomb's law , unit Coulomb

D.

John Frederic Daniell (1790–1845) British chemist - constant current source , Daniell element (galvanic copper-zinc element), Daniell unit

Ernst Danielson (1866–1907), Swedish heavy current engineer and one of the pioneers of Swedish electrical engineering - three-phase alternating current

Robert Davidson (1804–1894), Scottish inventor - first known electric locomotive

Lee De Forest (1873–1961), American physicist, radio technician and inventor - wireless telegraphy, radio, film and television technology, Audion - amplifier tube ( triode ), sound recording

Marcel Depréz (1843-1918) was a French physicist and electrical engineer

Max Dieckmann (1882–1960), German high-frequency technician and radio pioneer - aeronautical radio , radio navigation , direction finding, air traffic control, image radio

Ray Dolby (1933–2013), American electrical engineer and inventor - magnetic sound and video recording and playback, Dolby - noise reduction ( compander ), Dolby Stereo

Michail von Dolivo-Dobrowolsky (1862–1919), Russian electrical engineer - asynchronous motor , three-phase current , long-distance transmission of electrical energy

Paul Drude (1863–1906), German physicist - Drude theory , ellipsometry

Eugène Ducretet (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 mainly in the field of electricity, u. a. Lightbulb

Albert Einstein (1879–1955), US-Swiss physicist of German-Jewish descent - theory of relativity , photoelectric effect

Julius Elster (1854–1920), German teacher and physicist - including air 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 measurement, ultra-short wave technology , magnetron

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Federico Faggin (* 1941), Italian physicist, electrical engineer, entrepreneur and microchip specialist - main processor Intel 4004

Michael Faraday (1791–1867), English physicist and chemist - electrodynamics, velocity of propagation of electromagnetic force, magnetic properties of light, electromagnetic induction , electric generator , Faraday's paradox , Faraday effect , Faraday cage , Faraday's laws , Farad unit , Faraday constant

Richard Feldtkeller (1901–1981), German physicist and electrical engineer - communications engineering

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864–1930), British electrical engineer and inventor - Ferranti effect

Galileo Ferraris (1847–1897), Italian engineer and physicist - three-phase AC technology , Ferraris meters , Ferrari rotors

Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canadian inventor and radio pioneer - machine transmitter, first wireless voice transmission, first radio transmission

John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945), British electrical engineer and physicist - Fleming valve ( tube diode , electron tube )

Lee De Forest → see above under D

Jay W. Forrester (1918–2016), pioneer of computer technology and system dynamics - forerunner of today's RAM ( Random Access Memory )

Rudolf Franke (1870–1962), German electrical engineer - telecommunications technology

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American publisher, statesman, writer, scientist, natural philosopher and Freemason - inventor of the lightning rod , Franklin Unit

Carl Ludwig Frischen (1830–1890), German electrical engineer - telegraphy, intercom, electric motor , electric locomotive , line block (train protection)

Harry Fuld (1879–1932), German industrialist - Tenovis (telephone construction 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 electrical telegraph (with Weber), Gauß unit

Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), German glassblower, instrument maker and inventor of the Geißler tube
Hans Friedrich Geitel (1855–1923), German physicist - photoelectric effect , co-inventor of the photo cell (with magpie)
William Gilbert (1544–1603), English physician and physicist - magnetism , terrestrial magnetism , Gilbert unit

Heinrich Göbel (1818-1893), German-American precision mechanic and inventor - forerunner of an incandescent lamp (controversial)

Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930), German physicist - gas discharge research , discovery of canal rays (ion radiation)

Leo Graetz (1856–1941), German physicist - Graetz circuit (Graetz bridge), Graetz number

Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), German physicist and mayor of Gdańsk - battery made from Leiden bottles

Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgian designer and inventor - Grammescher 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 , teleautograph (teleprinter)

Otto Griessing (1897–1958), German electrical engineer - people's receiver

Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Swiss electrical engineer and inventor - frequency spreading technology DSSS , special HF matching converter (Guanella balun )

Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), German politician, lawyer, physicist, veterinarian and inventor - electrifying machine , electro luminescence

H

Edwin Hall (1855–1938), American physicist - Hall effect

Wilhelm Hallwachs (1859–1922), German physicist - Hallwax effect

Ralph Hartley (1888-1970), American electrical engineer - Shannon-Hartley law , Hartley circuit , co-founder of information theory , Hartley unit

Wilhelm Eugen Hartmann (1853–1915), German electrical engineer - electrical devices, machines and measuring instruments

Friedrich August Haselwander (1859–1932), German electrical engineer - co-inventor of the three-phase generator (with Bradley, Dolivo-Dobrowolsky, Wenström)

Francis Hauksbee (around 1666–1713), British scientist - electrifying machine

Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), British mathematician and physicist - electromagnetism, Heaviside function , Poynting vector , Kennelly-Heaviside layer , electret , line equation

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845–1904), German electrical engineer, designer and engineer - communications technology and heavy current technology, Hefner candle unit

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), German physicist and physiologist - Helmholtz function , Helmholtz coil , Helmholtz resonator , Helmholtz equation , Gibbs-Helmholtz equation , Helmholtz unit

Joseph Henry (1797–1878), American physicist - electromagnetism , electromagnet , self-induction , unit Henry

Carl Hering (1860–1926), American electrical and mechanical engineer - Hering test (induction test), electric ovens

Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), German physicist - electromagnetic waves , Hertzian oscillator , external photoelectric effect , unit Hertz

Wolfgang Hilberg (1932–2015), German electrical engineer - digitally coded time transmission for radio clocks

Søren Hjorth (1801–1870), Danish railway pioneer and inventor of the dynamo-electric principle , self-excited dynamo machine ( electric generator )

Jean Hoerni (1924–1997), Swiss physicist - inventor of planar technology for transistors

Marcian Edward Hoff (* 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 machine)
David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), British-American designer and inventor - typed telegraph , Hughes telephone , carbon microphone
Albert Wallace Hull (1880–1966), American physicist and inventor - magnetron , Dynatron
Christian Hülsmeyer (1881–1957), German entrepreneur and inventor - telemobiloskop ( radar ), coherer

I.

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

J

Ányos Jedlik (1800–1895), Hungarian physicist, scientist, teacher and inventor - dynamo-electric principle
Abram Fjodorowitsch 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 of joule

K

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate - discoverer of superconductivity , Onnes effect
August Karolus (1893–1972), German physicist - Karolus cell for electronic image transmission for television technology
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - see under "T"
Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861–1939), American electrical engineer - Complex AC bill , Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Fritz Kesselring (1897–1977), Swiss electrical engineer - expansion switch, contact converter
Erhard Kietz (1909–1982), German physicist - constant frequency for video signals, development of television
Jack Kilby (1923-2005), American Engineer - Nobel Prize Winner, Integrated Circuit (with Noyce)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), German physicist - Kirchhoff's rules , Kirchhoff's radiation law
Erasmus Kittler (1852–1929), German physicist and electrical engineering pioneer - world's first chair for electrical engineering, handbook of electrical engineering
Frederik Adolf Kjellin (1872–1910), Swedish chemist and inventor - induction melting furnace for electric steel production

Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700–1748), Prussian lawyer and natural scientist - Leiden bottle ( Kleist bottle )

Klaus von Klitzing (* 1943), German physicist - quantum Hall effect , resistance measurement, unit of Von Klitzing constant

Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840–1910), German physicist - Kohlrausch's law of square roots

Rudolf Kohlrausch (1809-1858), German physicist - Kohlrausch function

Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), Austrian-British physicist and engineer - co-inventor of the traveling wave tube

Johann Kravogl (1823–1889), Austrian gunsmith and mechanic - inventor of an electric motor

Herbert Kroemer (* 1928), German physicist and Nobel Prize 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 devices and machines

Eric Laithwaite (1921–1997), English electrical engineer - linear motor , maglev ( magnetic levitation train )

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Austrian film actress - frequency hopping , torpedo guidance system (with participation)

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 Leclanché (1839–1882), French chemist - Leclanché element

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716), German philosopher and universal scientist - calculating machine , dual system

Emil Lenz (1804–1865), German-Baltic physicist - Lenz rule , Joule-Lenz law of the heat effect of electricity

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), German mathematician, physicist and writer - experimental physics , electrophores , Lichtenberg figures

Robert von Lieben (1878–1913), Austrian physicist - Lieben tube ( electron tube with amplifier effect), relay

Karl Arvid Lindström (1866–1944), Swedish electrical engineer

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch mathematician and physicist - Lorentz's ether theory (electron theory ), Lorentz force , Lorentz transformation

Oleg Vladimirovich Lossew (1903–1942), Russian high-frequency technician - semiconductor technology, electroluminescence , (LED), Crystadyn receiver

Fritz Lüdi (1903–1963), Swiss high-frequency technician - high-performance glow cathode mutator ( converter ), multi-slot magnetron , klystron

Robert Lüdtge (1845–1880), German physicist - inventor of an electric microphone

M.

Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italian physicist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur - pioneer of wireless telecommunications , telegraphy and radio technology ; Marconi antenna

Erwin Otto Marx (1893–1980), German engineer - Marx generator , high-voltage direct current transmission , power converter

Joseph Massolle (1889–1957), German film sound engineer - sound film , optical sound method (with Engl, Vogt)

John William Mauchly (1907–1980), American physicist and computer pioneer - ENIAC , UNIVAC I (with Eckert)

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Scottish physicist - Maxwell's equations

Emil Mechau (1882–1945), German designer, cinema pioneer and inventor - Mechau projector , light point scanner , video telephone , 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 electrical telephone connection, invention of the telephone

Gustav Mie (1868–1957), German physicist - Mie scattering , Mie potential, Miesche system of units , Mie theory , Mie equation of state, world function

Dénes von Mihály (1894–1953), Hungarian physicist and technician - mechanical television (Telehor)

Oskar von Miller (1855–1934), German civil engineer - direct current remote transmission , first power plant , three-phase transmission

Gordon Moore (* 1929), American chemist and physicist - founder of the semiconductor manufacturer Intel , Moore's Law

Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977), German-American physicist - inventor of the field electron microscope and the field ion microscope

Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch natural scientist - inventor of the Leiden bottle ( condenser )

N

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

O

Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist - magnetic effect of electric current , piezometer , Oersted unit

Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), German physicist and mathematician - Ohm's law , unit ohm

Kenneth Olsen (1926-2011), American electrical engineer - minicomputer ; Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation

Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti s. u. "C"

P

Antonio Pacinotti (1841-1912), Italian physicist - Pacinotti-Grammescher Ring ( ring anchor - Dynamo )

Charles Grafton Page (1812–1868), American inventor - electrotechnical inventions, a. a. Electric locomotive , solenoid linear motor

Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Papaleksi (1880–1947), Russian high-frequency technician - electron tubes, wired and wireless telephony, interference method, radio location

Frank William Peek (1881–1933), American electrical engineer - high voltage, artificial lightning, Peek 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 technology , quenching coil for earth fault compensation (Petersen coil ), wattmetric earth fault relay , theory of the electric field , voltage breakdown

Franz Adam Petrina (1799–1855), Czech physicist - theory of the electrophore , resin cake electroscope , physharmonic

Fritz Pfleumer (1881–1945), German-Austrian engineer - inventor of the audio tape ( magnetic tape )

Hippolyte Pixii (1808-1835), French instrument maker - the first AC - generator , generator pulsating DC

Gaston Planté (1834–1889), French physicist and paleontologist - inventor of the lead accumulator

Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796–1877), German physicist - galvanometer , Poggendorff compensation circuit , electrostatic motor

Alexander M. Poniatoff (1892–1980), Russian-American electrical engineer - founder of the US company Ampex ; first video recorder

Alexander Stepanowitsch Popow (1859–1906), Russian physicist - pioneer of radio technology ; world's first radio receiver

John Henry Poynting (1852-1914), English physicist - Poynting-Robertson effect , Poynting theorem , Poynting vector

Leo Pungs (1883–1979), German electrical engineer - Pungs-Drossel

Mihajlo Pupin (1854–1935), Serbian-American physicist - Pupin's coil , X-ray exposure

Q

Georg Hermann Quincke (1834–1924), German physicist - Quincke rotation , Quincke's interference tube

R.

John Turton Randall (1905–1984), British physicist - Improving radar with microwaves, cavity magnetron
Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874), German physicist and inventor - invention of the telephone , called "telephone", contact microphone
Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711–1753), German-Baltic physicist - static electricity , electrometer

Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761–1835), Italian lawyer, economist, philosopher and hobby physicist - discovery of the distracting effect of electricity on a magnetic needle

Reinhold Rüdenberg (1883–1961), German electrical engineer and inventor - speed-adjustable three-phase shunt commutator motor, electron microscope

Ernst Walter Ruhmer (1878–1913), German physicist - pioneer of carrier frequency technology ; Optical sound recording and reproduction ( photographon ), electrolytic telephone , cordless telephone

Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff (1803–1877), mechanic and electrical engineer - spark inductor (induction apparatus, Rühmkorff lamp), Bunsen element

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Hans Sauer (1923–1996), German inventor - electromechanical switching elements ( relays ), miniature relays
Félix Savart (1791–1841), French doctor and physicist - connection between electrical current and magnetism Biot-Savart law (with Biot)
Alexander Iossifowitsch Schalnikow (1905–1986), Russian physicist - superconductor
Harald Schering (1880–1959), German physicist - high voltage technology, Schering Bridge
Paul Schmidt (1868–1948), German inventor and entrepreneur - dry cell battery , flashlight
Otto Schmitt (1913–1998), American biophysicist and inventor - Schmitt trigger , differential amplifier
Ferdinand Schneider (1866–1955), German engineer, inventor, designer and entrepreneur - telegraphy , antennas , sensors , world clock
Walter Schottky (1886–1976), German physicist and electrical engineer - Schottky effect , Schottky diode , Schottky barrier , Schottky defect , Schottky equation , Schottky contact
John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019), American electrical engineer and physicist - BCS theory (theory of superconductivity )
Georg Oskar Schubert (1900–1955), German electrical engineer and television technician - inter-film process , two-way telephony systems (video telephony )
Eduard Schüller (1904–1976), German electrical engineer - tape recorder , video recorder , helical track recording
Rudolf Schulten (1923–1996), developer of the nuclear power plant with a pebble bed reactor - visionary of an energy industry that is shaped by cutting-edge nuclear technology.
Theodor Schultes (1901–1981), German electrical engineer and pioneer of radar technology - high frequency technology , radio measuring devices Freya , Wassermann and Jagdschloss
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779–1857), German physicist - ammeter ( galvanometer )
Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770–1831), German-Baltic physicist - thermoelectric effect ( Seebeck effect ), thermoelectric series of voltages
Gerhard Sessler (* 1931), German electrical engineer and inventor - electret microphone , silicon microphone
Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American mathematician - information theory , Shannon unit

Isaac Shoenberg (1880–1963), Russian electrical engineer and high-frequency technician - telegraphy , television technology ; cathode ray tube

William B. Shockley (1910–1989), American physicist and Nobel Prize winner - co-inventor of the transistor (with Brattain and Bardeen), Shockley's equation

Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), German industrialist, inventor and founder of electrical engineering - electrical pointer telegraph , telegraphy , dynamo machine , electric locomotive , Siemens unit

Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden (1803–1891), German doctor and physicist - inductors , breakers , electric motors , lead-acid batteries

Adolf Slaby (1849–1913), German electrical engineer and pioneer of radio technology - telegraphy

Josip Sliskovic (1901–1984), Croatian-Austrian radio pioneer - 10-tube superhet , radios , television

Eberhard Spenke (1905–1992), German physicist - silicon semiconductors , zone melting process

Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930), American electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur - gyrocompass , navigational instruments, electrical devices

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 - hexode mixing tube , co-designer of the German small receiver ( Volksempfänger )

Karl Steinbuch (1917–2005), German communications engineer and cyberneticist - founder of German computer science and inventor of the first usable artificial neural network ( learning matrix )

Carl August von Steinheil (1801–1870), German physicist and astronomer - telegraphy ; Ground as a return conductor

Charles P. Steinmetz (1865–1923), German-American electrical engineer - alternating current theory, hysteresis theory, Steinmetz circuit

Lewis B. Stillwell (1863–1941), American electrical engineer - alternating current, power plants, Stillwell regulator

John Stone Stone (1869–1943), American mathematician, physicist, and inventor - telephony and radio telegraphy

Felix Strecker (1892–1951), German electrical engineer at Siemens

Karl Strecker (1858–1934), German physicist and electrical engineer - electrotelegraphy

Almon Strowger (1839–1902), American undertaker and inventor - electric step selector, automatic telephone operator

William Sturgeon (1783–1850), English physicist and inventor - electromagnet , galvanometer

Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor - incandescent lamp , Swan socket
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863–1930), British electrical engineer - lead-sheathed cables, thermal effects of focused cathode rays , preliminary work on electronic television

T

Frederick Emmons Terman (1900–1982) "Father of Silicon Valley" (with William Shockley)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian-Croatian-American electrical engineer and inventor - utilization of alternating current , Tesla transformer , radio 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 oscillation equation , moving coil measuring instrument, unit Kelvin

Henri Tudor (1859–1928), Luxembourg engineer and inventor - lead-acid batteries

Merle Antony Tuve (1901–1982), American physicist and geophysicist - radio waves , preliminary work for the radar

U

Uda Shintarō (1896-1976), Japanese electrical engineer - Yagi-Uda antenna (with Yagi)
Richard Ulbricht (1849–1923), German electrical engineer - low-voltage technology, integrating sphere

V

Cromwell Fleetwood Varley (1828–1883), British electrical engineer - discovery of the negative charge in cathode rays
Edy Velander (1894–1961), Swedish electrical engineer - power supply, compensation of 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 process (with Engl, Massolle), high-frequency coil, loudspeaker

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Italian physicist - Elektrophor , electrometer , plate capacitor , voltaic pile , voltmeter , Volta-effect , contact stress, contact electricity , unit Volt

W.

Karl Willy Wagner (1883–1953), German communications engineer - co-founder of the theory of electrical filters (with Campbell)

Julius Wallot (1876–1960), German physicist - weak current technology , four-pole theory , numerical value equation

Sir William Watson (1715–1787), English physician and naturalist - improvement of the Leiden bottle

Walter Weber (1907–1944), German physicist and engineer - pioneer of electromagnetic sound recording, high-frequency pre-magnetization

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891), German physicist - first electromagnetic telegraph (with Gauss), Weber unit

Jonas Wenström (1855-1893), Swedish heavy current engineer and one of the pioneers of Swedish electrical engineering - three-phase alternating current

Arthur Wehnelt (1871–1944), German physicist - Wehnelt interrupter , Wehnelt cylinder , oxide cathode ( hot cathode ), rectifier tube , detection of space charge
Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), British physicist - Wheatstone bridge , five-needle electromagnetic telegraph , pointer telegraph , rheostat
Max Wien (1866–1938), German physicist - high frequency technology, extinguishing spark transmitters , alternating current, electrical oscillations, wireless telegraphy
Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), German physicist - thermal radiation , Vienna's displacement law , Vienna's radiation law , Vienna filter ( velocity filter )

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 in the Leiden bottle

James Wimshurst (1832–1903), English inventor - Wimshurst machine ( influenza machine )

Johann Heinrich Winckler (1703–1770), German philosopher, philologist and natural scientist - electrifying machine

William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English physician, physicist and chemist - static electricity , preparatory work for an electric motor , improved battery

X, Y

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

Z

Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Dutch physicist - Zeeman effect (splitting of the spectral lines in the magnetic field)

Clarence Melvin Zener (1905–1993), American physicist and electrical engineer - Zener effect , Zener diode , Zener barrier

Karl Wilhelm Zitzmann (1871–1956), General Director at Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall - medical X-ray technology around 1920

Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), German civil engineer - first computer ( Z1 to Z4 )

Otto Zwierina (1900–1981), Austrian electrical engineer, measuring and testing technology

Vladimir Zworykin (1888–1982), Russian-American engineer, physicist and inventor - iconoscope - tube , kinescope , color television , electron microscope