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John G. Trump
John G. Trump (John George Trump, 1907–1985) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who developed megavolt X-ray generators for cancer therapy and evaluated Tesla's papers in 1943.
John H. McElroy
John H. McElroy (1936–2007) was an American electrical engineer who led NASA Goddard's CO2 laser communications research, directed NOAA's satellite programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
John Hays Hammond Jr.
John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888–1965) was an American inventor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, called the Father of Radio Control; he held 437 US patents and developed jam-resistant radio control of ships.
John Howard Dellinger
John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) was an American telecommunication engineer who led the National Bureau of Standards radio laboratory and discovered the sudden ionospheric disturbance, the Dellinger effect.
John J. Vithayathil
John Joseph Vithayathil (1937–2011) was an Indian-American electric power engineer who invented the thyristor-controlled series capacitor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
John Joseph Carty
John Joseph Carty (1861–1932) was an American electrical engineer who rose from telephone operator to Vice President of AT&T, led the first transcontinental telephone line in 1915, and chaired Bell Telephone Laboratories.
John L. Moll
John L. Moll (John Lewis Moll, 1921–2011) was an American electrical engineer known for the Ebers-Moll transistor model and the p-n-p-n switch theory behind the silicon controlled rectifier.
John M. Undrill
John M. Undrill is an American electric power systems engineer, architect of the PSS/E and developer of the PSLF simulation software that became industry standards for grid planning.
John Milton Miller
John Milton Miller was an American electrical engineer and physicist who worked at the Bureau of Standards and Naval Research Laboratory, reported the Miller effect in 1919, and held over 20 radio patents.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce (1910–2002) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, called the father of communications satellites Echo and Telstar, who also coined the name transistor.
John R. Treichler
John R. Treichler is an American electrical engineer known for the constant modulus adaptive filtering algorithm and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
John Roy Whinnery
John Roy Whinnery (1916–2009) was an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for waveguide discontinuity analysis, microwave tubes, and the electromagnetics textbook Fields and Waves.
John S. Mayo
John S. Mayo is an American electrical engineer and retired president of AT&T Bell Laboratories known for leading the US telephone network's conversion from analog to digital technology.
John Samuel Forrest
John Samuel Forrest (1907–1992) was a British electrical power engineer who helped develop the National Grid at 132, 275, and 400 kV and directed the Central Electricity Research Laboratory until 1973.
John Stone Stone
John Stone Stone (1869–1943) was an American electrical engineer whose tuned wireless patents the Supreme Court held in 1943 to have anticipated Marconi's four-circuit radio patent.
John van Nuys Granger
John van Nuys Granger (1918–1997) was an American antenna and telecommunications expert who founded Granger Associates in 1956, led Stanford Research Institute's Airborne Systems Laboratory, and served as IEEE president in 1970.
John Vincent Lawless Hogan
John Vincent Lawless Hogan (1890–1960) was an American radio engineer who helped found the Institute of Radio Engineers and founded the station that became WQXR.
Jonathan Zenneck
Jonathan Zenneck (1871–1959) was a German physicist who helped establish the first wireless telegraphy link to Heligoland in 1900 and wrote the standard early radio textbook.
Jordan J. Baruch
Jordan J. Baruch was an American electrical engineer and acoustics specialist, a founding partner of Bolt Beranek and Newman and Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1981.
Jordan Jay Baruch
Jordan Jay Baruch (1923–2011) was an American electrical engineer and acoustics specialist, a founding partner of Bolt Beranek and Newman and Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1981.
José M. F. Moura
José M. F. Moura is a Portuguese-American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University known for statistical signal processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Joseph C. Logue
Joseph C. Logue was an American electronics engineer at IBM who directed transistor circuit development from 1952 to 1959, enabling machines like the IBM 1401.
Joseph Feinstein
Joseph Feinstein (born 1925) is an American electrical engineer and physicist known for pioneering work on traveling wave tubes and magnetrons, and a 1965 standard text.
Joseph M. Pettit
Joseph M. Pettit was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering at Stanford from 1958 to 1972, and president of Georgia Tech from 1972 until his death in 1986.
Joseph Massolle
Joseph Massolle (1889–1957) was a German audio engineer and inventor who, with Hans Vogt and Josef Engl, developed the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, holding 87 of the group's more than 150 patents.
Joseph Slepian
Joseph Slepian, born 1891 in Boston, was an American electrical engineer and mathematician at Westinghouse who invented the autovalve lightning arrester, Deion circuit breaker, and ignitron.
Judson C. French
Judson C. French (1922–2021) was an American physicist and electronics metrologist who spent 51 years at NBS and NIST, founding the federal semiconductor measurement program in 1955.
Julian J. Bussgang
Julian J. Bussgang (Julian Jakob Bussgang, 1925–2023) was a Polish-born American engineer, entrepreneur, and translator known for the Bussgang theorem, for founding Signatron, and for translating Polish-Jewish memoirs.
Julius Adams Stratton
Julius Adams Stratton was an American electrical engineer and mathematical physicist who served as MIT's eleventh president, from 1959 to 1966, and chaired the Ford Foundation.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Jun-ichi Nishizawa (西澤潤一) was a Japanese semiconductor engineer, nicknamed "Mr. Semiconductor," whose inventions include the PIN diode, the static induction transistor, and optical fiber communication components.