COMPANY

Electronics and engineering firm, founded 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske as "Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt Siemens & Halske."

Official Website:
http://www.siemens.de/

Ticker:
NYSE:SI (ADR)

Corporate headquarters:
Munich, Germany

Sales:
$86.4B (2003)

Employees:
417000 (2003)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Philip V. Gerdine	Business	c. 1939		Retired Siemens executive
Thorsten Heins	Business	29-Dec-1957		CEO of Research in Motion
Gustav Hertz	Physicist	22-Jul-1887	30-Oct-1975	Franck-Hertz experiment
Klaus Kleinfeld	Business	6-Nov-1957		President and COO of Alcoa
Walter Kunerth	Business	1940		Retired Siemens executive
Joseph G. Licata, Jr.	Business	c. 1960		CEO of SER Solutions, Inc.
George Nolen	Business	c. 1956		CEO of Siemens
Gerhard Schulmeyer	Business	1938		President of Siemens US, 1999-2001
Werner von Siemens	Business	13-Dec-1816	6-Dec-1892	Founder of Siemens AG

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert M. Kimmitt	Diplomat	19-Dec-1947		US Deputy Treasury Secretary

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Klaus Kleinfeld	Business	6-Nov-1957		President and COO of Alcoa

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Dennis Gabor	Physicist	5-Jun-1900	8-Feb-1979	Inventor of holography
Konrad Zuse	Engineer	22-Jun-1910	18-Dec-1995	Built first Turing-complete computer

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Georg von Békésy	Scientist	3-Jun-1899	13-Jun-1972	Mechanism of cochlear stimulation
Randall Hyde	Computer Programmer	c. 1960		Art of Assembly Language
Herbert Kroemer	Physicist	25-Aug-1928		Pioneer in laser technology
Josef Anton Riedl	Composer	11-Jun-1929		Glas-Spiele
Ernst Ruska	Physicist	25-Dec-1906	27-May-1988	Inventor of the electron microscope
Walter Schottky	Physicist	23-Jul-1886	4-Mar-1976	Solid-state physics and electronics

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