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Albert H. Taylor
Albert H. Taylor, born Albert Hoyt Taylor, was an American electrical engineer who co-discovered radar in 1922 and led the Naval Research Laboratory's Radio Division from 1923 to 1945.
Allen M. Peterson
Allen M. Peterson (1922–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University whose radar and ionospheric research helped start radar astronomy, radar oceanography, and over-the-horizon missile-warning radar.
Charles V. Jakowatz Jr.
Charles V. "Jack" Jakowatz Jr. (1951–2015) was an American radar signal-processing engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who developed phase gradient autofocus and coherent change detection.
Christopher Ruf
Christopher S. Ruf is an American electrical engineer at the University of Michigan who pioneered GNSS reflectometry and led NASA's CYGNSS small-satellite hurricane mission, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
David Allen Landgrebe
David Allen Landgrebe (1934–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Purdue University who helped originate multispectral remote sensing and led its Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing.
Edward G. Bowen
Edward George "Ted" Bowen (1911-1991) was a Welsh-born Australian radiophysicist who helped develop radar in World War II and led CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics from 1946 to 1971.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby
Fawwaz T. Ulaby is an electrical engineer known for microwave remote sensing, a University of Michigan professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
George L. Turin
George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.
Gerald Paul Dinneen
Gerald Paul Dinneen was an American electrical engineer and mathematician who directed MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 1977, then served as a US Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981.
Irene Carswell Peden
Irene Carswell Peden (1925–2025) was an American electrical engineer at the University of Washington who in 1970 became the first American woman to work in the Antarctic interior.
Kenneth C. Slatton
Kenneth Clinton "Clint" Slatton (1970–2009) was an American engineer at the University of Florida who worked on lidar and radar remote sensing and won a PECASE award.
Lee Davenport
Lee Davenport was an American physicist who led the SCR-584 anti-aircraft radar at MIT's Radiation Laboratory in World War II, built Harvard's cyclotron, and retired as GTE's chief scientist.
Merrill Skolnik
Merrill Skolnik (1927–2022) was an American radar researcher who led the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Radar Division for over 30 years and wrote Introduction to Radar Systems.
Miguel Velez-Reyes
Miguel Vélez-Reyes is an electrical engineer and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, known for hyperspectral image processing and space domain awareness.
Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.
Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard, Jr. (1916–2004) was an American radio physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for over-the-horizon radar, meteor-burst communication, and ionospheric sounding.
Peter Swerling
Peter Swerling (1929–2000) was an American mathematician and radar theoretician whose statistical models of fluctuating radar targets, the Swerling Cases I–IV, remain standard tools in radar system design.
Qing-Huo Liu
Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.
R. Noel Longuemare
R. Noel Longuemare is an American electrical engineer who spent 41 years developing radar and avionics systems at Westinghouse, then served in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton.
Robert E. McIntosh
Robert E. McIntosh (1940–1998) was an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for microwave remote sensing and airborne cloud radar.
Robert J. Hermann
Robert J. Hermann is an American electrical engineer who directed the National Reconnaissance Office from 1979 to 1981 and later held senior posts at United Technologies.
Robert Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio physicist, born in 1892, who led the development of Britain's Chain Home radar network and is known as the father of radar.
Walter E. Morrow Jr.
Walter E. Morrow Jr. (1928–2017) was an American electrical engineer who directed MIT Lincoln Laboratory for 21 years, from 1977 to 1998, and pioneered military communication satellites.
William E. Gordon
William E. Gordon (1918–2010) was an American electrical engineer who conceived and designed the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and taught at Cornell and Rice universities.
William M. Brown (electrical engineer)
William M. Brown is an American electrical engineer and synthetic aperture radar researcher who founded ERIM and served as Chief Scientist of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate.