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Badge Number 11 is named after Guglielmo Marconi who was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio, his development of Marconi's law and a radio...
His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This unites all previously unrelated observations, experiments, and equations of electricity...
Shannon is famous for having founded Information Theory with one landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer...
Walter Hermann Schottky (23 July 1886, Zürich, Switzerland – 4 March 1976, Pretzfeld , West Germany) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing...
Badge Number 12 is named after Nick Holonyak, Jr. inventor of the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric...
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed...
Gordon Kidd Teal (January 10, 1907 – January 7, 2003) invented a method of applying the Czochralski method to produce extremely pure germanium single crystals used in...
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth...
Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now modern day Croatia, Tesla is most famous for his influence in introducing AC power, and by extension his famous clashes...
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life...
Ada Lovelace was arguably the first computer scientist, and is credited with the first algorithm designed to run on a “computer”: the Analytical Engine devised by Charles...
Born in Bavaria, Georg Ohm is credited for the discovery of the proportional relationship between current and voltage, and thus gives his name to the unit of resistance...
French physicist Andre-Marie Ampere founded the science of electromagnetism, know at the time as electrodynamics. You will still hear his name mentioned in modern electronics...
Alessandro Volta was a physicist and entrepreneur, said to have created the first battery in the world: the voltaic pile. For his work discovering the proportional relationship...
element14 ranking level 1 in honour of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb the French physicist is best known for creating the definition of electrostatic force of attraction...
The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) used in a variety of timer , pulse generation and oscillator applications. The IC design was proposed in 1970 by Hans...
Vimby produced a short segment featuring our space last year: http://www.vimby.com/lifestyle/pumping_station_one/10/891/ [Apologies - there is a 30 second advert played...
Women in Engineering Day Women in Electronics Survey Results | About the Survey | Return to Members Page As today marks International Women in Engineering Day, Farnell...
