Institute of Radio Engineers

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Institute of Radio Engineers

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1912 in New York City, and merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form IEEE in 1963.

Founding Date:
1912

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Howard Aiken Physicist 8-Mar-1900 14-Mar-1973 Designer of early computers

Ernst F. W. Alexanderson Inventor 25-Jan-1878 14-May-1975 Developed radio and television at GE and RCA

Edward Victor Appleton Physicist 6-Sep-1892 21-Apr-1965 Ionosphere, shortwave radio

Gregory Breit Physicist 14-Jul-1899 11-Sep-1981 Proton-proton dispersion

Edward Condon Physicist 2-Mar-1902 26-Mar-1974 Quantum Mechanics

Charles J. Van Depoele Inventor 27-Apr-1846 18-Mar-1892 Trolley car pioneer

John Presper Eckert Computer Programmer 9-Apr-1919 3-Jun-1995 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers

Lee De Forest Inventor 26-Aug-1873 30-Jun-1961 Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube

Ivan Getting Inventor 18-Jan-1912 11-Oct-2003 Global Positioning System

Wilson Greatbatch Inventor 6-Sep-1919 27-Sep-2011 Implantable pacemaker

John William Mauchly Physicist 30-Aug-1907 8-Jan-1980 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers

Grote Reber Astronomer 22-Dec-1911 20-Dec-2002 First radio astronomer

Percy Spencer Scientist 19-Jul-1894 8-Sep-1970 Invented the microwave oven

Frederick Terman Scientist 7-Jun-1900 19-Dec-1982 Stanford Research Park

Elihu Thomson Inventor 29-Mar-1853 13-Mar-1937 Electric welding and A/C motors

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